Search and rescue (SAR) refers to every operation aiming find someone presumed lost, sick, or injured in remote hard-to-access areas. This study presents the design of an operational system that supports maritime SAR emergencies by combining information from global hydrodynamic models (GHM) a local model (LHM) implemented FVCOM. The output these is used as input multiple particle drift estimato...

Catastrophic flooding associated with sea-level rise and change of hurricane patterns has put the northeastern coastal regions of the United States at a greater risk. In this paper, we predict coastal flooding at the east bank of Delaware Bay and analyze the resulting impact on residents and transportation infrastructure. The three-dimensional coastal ocean model FVCOM coupled with a two-dimens...

Abstract. The hypoxic zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico varies spatially (area, location) and temporally (onset, duration) on multiple scales. Exposure fish to dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations (< 2 mg L?1) is often lethal avoided, while exposure 4 L?1 occurs readily causes sublethal effects decreased growth fecundity for individuals many species. We simulated movement individual within...

Coastline changes have significant impacts on coastal hydrodynamics. Xiangshan Bay is a semi-closed and long-narrow bay located in Zhejiang Province, China. Its coastline has changed dramatically recent decades; however, the variations small-scale hydrodynamics areas not been carefully studied. This study uses Finite-Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM) to design set of control experiments five...

This paper uses the finite-volume community ocean model (FVCOM) coupled with simulating waves nearshore (SWAN) in a wave–current–sediment to simulate tidal current field, wave and suspended sediment concentration (SSC) field sea area near Weifang Port, China. The three-dimensional water-and-sediment was modified by introducing sediment-settling-velocity formula that considers effect of gradatio...

To provide insightful information on water quality management, it is crucial to improve the understanding of the complex biogeochemical cycles of Chesapeake Bay (CB), so a three-dimensional unstructured grid-based water quality model (ICM based on the finite-volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM)) was configured for CB. To fully accommodate the CB study, the water quality simulations were evaluated...