A Synthetic Model for Gulf of Mexico Hurricanes
A Synthetic Model for Gulf of Mexico Hurricanes
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墨西哥湾飓风的综合模型
DOI:
10.2523/20699-ms
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发表时间:
2010
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
James Stear
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作者:
P. Vickery;D. Wadhera;James Stear
This paper describes the development of a synthetic model for Gulf of Mexico hurricanes, for use in establishing design criteria. The model has been derived using atmospheric and historical hurricane data from the 1940’s to 2006, and eddy data for the period 1984 through 2006. The influence of sea surface temperature and mixed layer depth on storm intensity is accounted for explicitly. The model is validated by comparing the results of a 100,000-year simulation to historical storm data. Using 300,000 years of storms derived from the model, wind criteria across the Gulf has been estimated for return periods up to 10,000-year, and compared to results from the traditional approach of extrapolating from siteaveraged historical data. This effort represents a step-change in the way hurricane criteria has traditionally been developed by industry. The synthetic hurricane model can improve the stability of hurricane design criteria, and provide more insight to the types of storms which generate rare (1,000to 10,000-year) site conditions. In addition to offering a more stable basis for hurricane design criteria, the synthetic model also offers the following advantages: Being able to assess the impacts of climate change scenarios such as increasing sea temperature and mixed layer depth, by changing environment parameters and re-generating storms for them. Allowing for a combined hurricane-loop/eddy database, with synthetic storms developed concurrent with synthetic eddies, so that joint hurricane-loop load cases may be better
影响因子:
3.5
作者:
LARGE, WG;POND, S
通讯作者:
POND, S