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Modelling the Ocean Response to a Tropical Cyclone on Australia's Northwest Shelf
Madeleine Cahill, CMAR
Peter Craig, CMAR
Mike Herzfeld - CMAR
Lou Mason - UTas
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Can we model the ocean response to tropical cyclones ?
• Tropical cyclones: infrequent, small, energetic
• Dynamic atmospheric models have little skill in generating TCs
• Observations of cyclones in Australia are generally land based
• In situ observations of ocean response are rare.
• Effects are devastating (oil rigs, coastal regions…)
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Ocean observations NWS – 1995 current meter deployment
ADCP
x current meter mooring
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Path of TC Bobby
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SHOC - CSIRO’s Coastal Ocean Model
3-D primitive equation hydrodynamic model Arakawa C-grid free surface vertical z coordinates a choice of turbulence closure schemes
Our application 4km & 20km horizontal grid resolution 46 z-levels k- turbulence closure scheme Horizontally uniform vertical temperature profile
with a 20m mixed layer
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Tropical Cyclone Model
Double vortex Holland model
- track prescribed
- radius to maximum winds determined by fitting to
available wind and pressure observations
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Available marine wind observing sites
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Cyclone model fit to wind observations: Site 1
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Model fit to wind observations: site 2
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Tropical Cyclone Model Parameters
Radius to maximum winds Central pressure deficit
Two Holland wind fields: Bobby1 (blue), Bobby2 (pink)
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Holland wind fields - wind stress magnitude ocean current vectors (pink)
Bobby1 Bobby2
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Filtered current vector timeseriesADCP mooring in 125m (central site)
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Modelled ocean response at ADCP mooring
Wind forcing: Bobby1 Bobby2
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Comparing response to two wind fields: Bobby1 (m) and Bobby2 (black) at the ADCP (125m)
Alongshore component Cross-Shelf component
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Comparing response to Bobby1(m) and Bobby2(black) at offshore mooring (M2 in 300m)
Alongshore component Cross-shelf component
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Filtered current vector timeseries Offshore mooring in 300m
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Modeled response at offshore mooring:
windfield1 windfield2
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Velocities at ADCP location Observations (blue) v SHOC (mag)
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Conclusions
• Model-data fit is starting to look pretty good • Model response is very sensitive to TC extent and location
Further work• compare SHOC results with ROMS• explore the effect of different vertical mixing schemes (using
temperature as well velocity for verification)• There are a further 11 TCs for which we have some current and
temperature observations from the NWS.