Tuesday, 14 January 2020: 3:00 PM
158 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Kinematic analysis of ocean winds is largely a human interactive process in which a marine
meteorologist reanalyzes significant weather events in order to develop a coherent evolution of a
storm event in time and space using available observations. The use of kinematic analysis winds for
ocean response modeling was pioneered by Dr. Vince Cardone in the 1970s, and has been applied in
numerous studies requiring reference winds for development and calibration of ocean response
models (including development of the WAM model). This paper will detail the development of the
kinematic analysis process, its present application in extra-tropical and tropical storm analysis, and
discuss new challenges associated with applying kinematic analysis in fully coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling systems.
meteorologist reanalyzes significant weather events in order to develop a coherent evolution of a
storm event in time and space using available observations. The use of kinematic analysis winds for
ocean response modeling was pioneered by Dr. Vince Cardone in the 1970s, and has been applied in
numerous studies requiring reference winds for development and calibration of ocean response
models (including development of the WAM model). This paper will detail the development of the
kinematic analysis process, its present application in extra-tropical and tropical storm analysis, and
discuss new challenges associated with applying kinematic analysis in fully coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling systems.
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