U.S.-India Cooperative Research: Sea Breeze Convection, Storm Surge Modeling and the Land/Ocean Processes AssociatedWith the Indian Ocean

描述：该奖项旨在支持博士之间的合作研究。罗利市北卡罗来纳州立大学 (NCSU) 的 Sethu Raman 和 Leonard Pietrafesa 以及 P.A. 博士印度马德拉斯印度理工学院 (IITM) 的 Aswathanarayana。 这些科学家与印度国家海洋技术研究所 (NIOT) 在 IITM 校区合作，计划研究印度海风、见风锋沿线的大气对流，并研究印度东海岸（孟加拉湾）沿线的风暴潮过程。 在第一部分中，科学家们计划调查海风的水平范围与陆地-海洋温差和环境风的关系，并研究沿海风锋的深​​层对流的形成及其对土地利用模式和高空稳定性等其他因素的依赖性。 他们计划主要使用北卡罗来纳州立大学开发并转移到 IITM 的流体静力数值模型。 该模型将扩展到 3 维状态，并用于印度每三个小时进行一次的大气观测，其历史可以追溯到 30 年前。 根据需要，该模型可以补充非静水力模型。 在第二部分中，科学家们将利用 NIOT 提供的风暴潮模型，该模型基于最初在美国开发的飓风海洋、湖泊和陆上海浪 (SLOSH) 模型。 他们将开发方法来规定驱动海洋模型的气象力，还将使用 NCSU 开发的简单水动力模型，并在 1993 年艾米丽飓风发生期间在北卡罗来纳州使用，在预测这次热带风暴潮时取得了令人满意的结果。 范围：该奖项旨在允许在模拟各种大气-海洋-陆地现象方面非常活跃的美国团队与马德拉斯校区的印度团队之间进行合作，该团队拥有出色的分析能力以及来自众多印度研究组织的广泛数据源。这些政府组织持续运行雷达、卫星和其他大气和海洋测量仪器。 该研究对美国和印度具有重大科学效益，对印度当局预测恶劣气候和天气状况的气象活动尤其重要。 该项目涉及双方杰出科学家和研究生。

Description: This award is to support a collaborative research between Drs. Sethu Raman and Leonard Pietrafesa of the North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, and Dr. P.A. Aswathanarayana of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM), India. These scientists, in collaboration with the Indian National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) on the IITM campus, plan to study Indian sea breezes, atmospheric convection along the see breeze front, and to also study the storm surge processes along the East coast of India (Bay of Bengal). In the first part, the scientists plan to investigate the horizontal extent of the sea breezes in relation to land-sea temperature differences and the ambient wind, and to study the formation of deep convection along the sea breeze front and its dependence on other factors such as land use pattern and upper air stability. They plan to primarily use a hydrostatic numerical model developed at NCSU and transferred to the IITM. This model will be extended to a 3-dimension state and used with atmospheric observations in India that is taken every three hours, and dating back for 30 years. The model may be supplemented with a non-hydrostatic model as needed. In the second part, the scientists will utilize a storm surge model available at the NIOT and based on Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) model originally developed in the United States. They will develop methods to prescribe meteorological forces that drive the ocean model, and will also use a simple hydrodynamic model developed at NCSU and used in North Carolina during the occurrence of Hurricane Emily in 1993, with satisfactory results, in predicting this tropical storm surge. Scope: This award is to allow cooperation between a U.S. team that is quite active in modeling various atmospheric-sea-land phenomena, and an Indian team at the Madras campus that has excellent analytical capability as well as access to extensive data sources from numerous Indian research organizations. These governmental organizations operate radar, satellite, and other atmospheric and ocean measurement instrumentation on a continuous basis. The research is of significant scientific benefit to the United States and India, and is of particular importance to the meteorological activities of the Indian authorities in predicting severe climatic and weather conditions. The project involves eminent scientists and graduate students on both sides.