REVIEW ARTICLE


Research of the Influential Factors on the Simulation of Storm Surge in the Bohai Sea



Yumei Ding*, 1, 2, Hao Wei2
1 Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, P.R. China
2 College of Marine Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, TEDA, Tianjin 300457, P.R. China

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2014
Volume: 8
First Page: 151
Last Page: 156
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-8-151
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X20140501010

Article History:

Received Date: 17/01/2014
Revision Received Date: 25/03/2014
Acceptance Date: 26/03/2014
Electronic publication date: 18/4/2014
Collection year: 2014

© 2014 Ding and Wei

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, P.R. China; Tel: 15902203398; E-mail:: dingym@tust.edu.cn


Abstract

A hindcast of typical extratropical storm surge occurring in the Bohai Sea in Oct. 2003 is performed using a three-dimensional storm surge model system based on Finite-Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM). The surface winds are obtained from the WRF data set. Some preliminary sensitivity studies of the influential factors affecting the storm surge simulation in the Bohai Sea are conducted with the high revolution numerical model of storm surge. The factors of tide-surge interaction, the wind stress, the water depth, the bottom drag coefficient and the critical depth in the model are studied. After considering the tide-wind interaction and the severe wind, the most important influential factor affecting the storm surge in the Bohai Sea is the bottom drag coefficient. These sensitivity studies indicate that the storm surge simulations depend critically on the parameterizations. Hence additional experimental guidance is required on the bottom drag coefficient. This study is useful for the storm surge simulation in order to select the proper parameter to make possible a good conservation behavior of the storm surge model.

Keywords: FVCOM, influential factors, numerical simulation, storm surge, surge level, the Bohai Sea.