Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Modeling Program Using Movable Nested Grid Techniques

Our long term fundamental goals are 1) to develop a movable multiply nested mesh ocean model and investigate its application for air-sea interaction studies on the mesoscale, 2) to study coupled air-sea processes at very high wind speeds, 3) to investigate the capability of coupled tropical cyclone ocean models for improving predictions of the ocean response and tropical cyclone evolution, and 4) to develop model initialization and data assimilation techniques for short and medium range coupled airsea predictions.