Dr. John Warner of the U. S. Geological Survey presented the Dept. of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences seminar on 23 October, 2017. He spoke on Numerical Modeling of Geomorphic Changes During Hurricane Sandy, using the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) numerical model. Dr. Roy He of OOMG hosted Dr. Warner.
OOMG welcomes its newest member, visiting graduate student Yangyang Liu. She comes to NC State from her home institution Xiamen University located in China’s Fujian Province. While at NC State she will be working on modeling solar radiation in the upper water column and its impact on the large scale ocean […]
Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS) PhD Student and OOMG member Laura McGee delivered a talk at the first ever Climate Lightning Talks: Apocalypse Now? How Extreme Weather is Affecting the Southeast and the Globe. Her talk was titled, “Hurricanes Cause Asymmetric Phytoplankton Blooms” and explained how phytoplankton activity is enhanced […]
An interesting phenomena has been observed in the wake of Hurricane Irma as it moves along the west Florida coastline. Several images have been put on social media of water drastically receding away from the coastline, whereas tropical storms usually result in surge as they make landfall. This phenomenon is […]
Our coupled models, initialized at 8pm on September 7th, have completed and are now able to resolve Irma making landfall in Florida sometime between 2am and 5am Sunday morning. As a result, both the 3 and 7 day runs are capable of resolving the storm and currently point the landfall as […]
Many, many thanks to NC Sea Grant and NC Space Grant for their gracious support and funding for my upcoming project, Investigation of Marine Physical-Biogeochemical Interactions During Storm Conditions Off of the North Carolina Coast. This work will use long-term satellite observations, in-situ data, and numerical model analysis to examine […]
Over the last few days, the 7-day forecast experiment upgrade has been working well. Our output from forecasts initialized on the 6th and 7th are largely in line with the forecast models that the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has been favoring in their forecast tracks. We have been utilizing additional […]
Over the last few weeks, we have been working to expand the current CNAPS forecast from 3 to 7 days. With the appearance of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and the peak of the hurricane season on September 10, we were graciously allocated additional computing power from the High Performance Computing (HPC) […]
Dr. Roy He served on the PhD committee of Ann Kristin Sperrevik at the University of Bergen, in Norway, and attended her defense in June 2017. Her thesis title is “Modeling coastal circulation in Norway using a high-resolution 4D-Var ocean assimilation system.” Also serving on Ms. Sperrevik’s committee were Dr. […]
The Kenan Institute of Engineering, Technology, and Science (KIETS) at NC State University has funded OOMG’s research on Dynamical Model Downscaling of Climate Change and Its Impacts on Marine Environmental Conditions Off North Carolina. Support for this research into the slowdown on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) will enable OOMG to […]
