Key Personnel:

• Julia Muccino, Hao Luo, El-Said Ahmed (ASU),
• Rick Luettich (UNC Chapel Hill)

Governing Equations

• 3D version: hydrostatic, shallow water equations, spherical coordinates
• 2DDI version: vertically integrated, barotropic, wetting and drying

Numerics

• Semi-implicit
• Galerkin finite elements on linear triangles
• GWCE formulation
• Stretched vertical coordinates
• MPI-based parallelization

Key Data Assimilation Issues

• Development of a GWCE tangent linear model
• Development of discrete adjoint GWCE from discrete adjoint primitive equations
• Well-posedness of inversions
• Hypothesis testing
• Inversion of tidal data for boundary conditions for use in operational modeling and engineering design
• General inversion strategies

Applications

• Tidal modeling
• Storm surge modeling
• Inlet, estuary, shallow water circulation
• Operational modeling

Data Sets

• East & West Coast Tidal databases
• Beaufort Inlet, NC, circulation
• Southern Louisiana hurricane storm surge