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

产品描述：该奖项是为了支持北卡罗来纳州州立大学（NCSU）的Sethu拉曼博士和伦纳德皮特拉费萨博士、罗利博士和P.A.博士之间的合作研究。印度马德拉斯印度理工学院的Aswathanarayana说。 这些科学家与印度国家海洋技术研究所（NIOT）在IITM校园合作，计划研究印度海风，大气对流沿着海风锋，并研究风暴潮过程沿着印度东海岸（孟加拉湾）。 在第一部分，科学家计划研究海风的水平范围与海陆温差和环境风的关系，并研究沿着海风锋的深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。 他们计划主要使用在NCSU开发并转移到IITM的流体静力学数值模型。 该模型将扩展到三维状态，并用于印度每三小时进行一次的大气观测，可追溯到30年前。 该模型可根据需要补充非流体静力学模型。 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海洋，湖泊和陆上飓风（SLOSH）模型。 他们将制定方法来规定驱动海洋模式的气象力量，并将使用由NCSU开发的简单流体动力学模式，该模式在1993年艾米丽飓风发生期间曾在北卡罗来纳州使用，结果令人满意，用于预测这次热带风暴潮。 适用范围：该奖项是为了让一个在模拟各种大气-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一个印度团队合作，该团队具有出色的分析能力，并可以从众多印度研究机构获得广泛的数据源。这些政府组织持续操作雷达、卫星和其他大气和海洋测量仪器。 这项研究对美国和印度具有重大的科学效益，对印度当局预测恶劣气候和天气条件的气象活动特别重要。 该项目涉及双方的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.