The 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

2B.12
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF HURRICANE LANDFALL USING THE GFDL HURRICANE PREDICTION MODEL

Weixing Shen, University of Rhode Island, Province, RI; and I. Ginis and R. E. Tuleya

In this numerical study, the GFDL hurricane model is coupled with the Princeton Ocean Model. The investigation focuses on the changes of surface fluxes such as moisture and momentum fluxes and their relationship with hurricane intensity and structure changes during hurricane landfall. The ocean response near the land and the effect of ocean interaction on air-sea fluxes and hurricane dynamics will also be presented.

The 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology