James T. Kirby
Center for Applied Coastal Research
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
The partnership will develop and test a comprehensive community model that predicts waves, currents, sediment transport and bathymetric change in the nearshore ocean, between the shoreline and about 10 m water depth. The model will consist of a "backbone", handling data input and output as well as internal storage, together with a suite of "modules", each of which handles a focused subset of the physical processes being studied. A wave module will model wave transformation over arbitrary coastal bathymetry and predict radiation stresses and wave induced mass fluxes. A circulation module will model the slowly varying current field driven by waves, wind and buoyancy forcing, and will provide information about the bottom boundary layer structure. A seabed module will model sediment transport, determine the bedform geometry, parameterize the bedform effect on bottom friction, and compute morphological evolution resulting from spatial variations in local sediment transport rates. The project will support extensions to the science base associated with each module, and will support the use of existing field and laboratory data sets to define significant tests of the modules. Data assimilation techniques will be developed and employed to address the problems of insufficient boundary data information in model applications to field experiments as well as parameter determination.
| University of Delaware | James T. Kirby Ib A. Svendsen |
| Naval Postgraduate School | Edward Thornton Tom Herbers |
| Oregon State University | John Allen H. Tuba Ozkan-Haller |
| University of California, San Diego | Robert T. Guza |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Steve Elgar |
| University of Florida | Daniel M. Hanes Andrew D. Kennedy |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Kevin Haas |
| North Carolina State University | Thomas Drake |
| Naval Research Laboratory | James M. Kaihatu |
| Princeton University | George Mellor |
Publications resulting from NOPP program support may be found here.
Scientific results from the study have been incorporated in the public domain modeling system NearCoM (for Nearshore Community Model). The model system and it's individual components are described at the NearCoM Homepage. Potential users may register there, download software, and take part in discussions on a user's forum.
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A pdf version of the annual report (to ONR) may be found here.
Information about the annual meeting is here, including the agenda and the list of attendees.
A pdf version of the annual report to ONR may be found here. A shorter report to CORE from January 2002 may be found here.
Information about the annual meeting is here, including the agenda and the list of attendees.
Information about the annual meeting is here, including the agenda and the list of attendees.
A web page has been developed to provide access to field data sets to be used in testing components of the nearshore community model. This page is presently password protected.
kirby@udel.edu
