The presented results, concerning the features of the solar wind plasma structure as observed by spacecraft upstream of Earth, could be used for development of middle-term forecasts of magnetic storms. We have analyzed 1-hour data for 1995-2005 and a whole year of 1-min data during solar minimum (1995) and during solar maximum (2000) with 48 and 60 storms, respectively. The long-term statistica...

[1] In the fall of both 1999 and 2000, unexpected ‘‘rapid tides’’ occurred along the coast of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. These rapid tides have been linked to the passing of Tropical Storm Jose (1999) and Tropical Storm Helene (2000) over the Grand Banks. Here we examine the dynamic ocean response to Tropical Storm Helene (2000) using a barotropic shallow water ocean model forced by ...

[1] In the fall of both 1999 and 2000, unexpected ‘‘rapid tides’’ occurred along the coast of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. These rapid tides have been linked to the passing of Tropical Storm Jose (1999) and Tropical Storm Helene (2000) over the Grand Banks. Here we examine the dynamic ocean response to Tropical Storm Helene (2000) using a barotropic shallow water ocean model forced by ...

FOLEY, KRISTEN MADSEN. Multivariate Spatial Temporal Statistical Models for Applications in Coastal Ocean Prediction. (Under the direction of Montserrat Fuentes and Lian Xie.) Estimating the spatial and temporal variation of surface wind fields plays an important role in modeling atmospheric and oceanic processes. This is particularly true for hurricane forecasting, where numerical ocean models...

Wind driven oceanic surface waves have a major impact on marine activity, especially near the coastal regions. Strong winds associated with winter storms induce storm surges along the west coast of Japan. Combined high wind conditions, tides, and storm surges can have a tremendous impact on the surface wave fields. Accurate wave forecast becomes an important issue at various operational forecas...

A climatology of galeand storm-force gap wind events in the Gulf of Tehuantepec is constructed for the first time using 10 yr of ocean surface vector wind data from the SeaWinds scatterometer on board NASA’s Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite. These wind events are among the most severe that occur within the National Hurricane Center’s (NHC) area of marine forecasting responsibility outsi...

The most apparent effect of a tropical cyclone on the upper ocean is the marked cooling of sea surface temperature (SST) that is clearly seen in Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) images of SST. As a storm intensifies, the increasing wind speed may increase evaporation and supply the storm with the necessary source of heat for further intensification. However, the significant SST ...

The 6 January 1997 and 7 April 1997 halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were associated with interplanetary magnetic clouds observed by WIND that led to increased geomagnetic storm activity as indicated by the hourly Dst index. A recently developed storm-prediction method is retrospectively applied to these two solar wind (SW) structures. The results are described in detail. Had the algorithm be...

An all-solar manned mission to Mars must overdesign the photovoltaic array in order to handle dust storm conditions. Wind energy extraction is proven terrestrial technology which can offset the dust storm (and night-time) reductions. A multi-phase project is underway to assess the feasibility and drive the development of wind energy extraction systems for Mars. This project has specifically add...

Numerical simulation of wind waves in the bays of south-west part of the Crimea Peninsula is carried out with high space resolution. Particular attention is paid to the local characteristics of wind waves in the Sevastopol Bay. The parallel version of wind wave spectral model SWAN is implemented. The steady state waves caused by wind of different directions are considered. It is obtained that t...