Tropical Cyclone Atmospheric Forcing for Ocean Response Models: Approaches and Issues
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The specification of tropical cyclone atmospheric forcing for ocean response models is described with emphasis on methods that are currently actively applied in basins rich in insitu, airborne and remotely sensed meteorological data. We emphasize approaches and critical issues addressed in more detail in this workshop’s special session on Tropical Meteorology. Five alternative wind fields developed for Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Katrina (2005) are applied with a third generation wave model to highlight the sensitivity of predictions of integrated properties of the wave spectrum to the wind fields, including a preliminary assessment of the sensitivity of inner core peak sea states to high frequency temporal changes in the wind forcing.
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