Open AccessThe response of different wind-stress forcings on the surges along the east coast of India
Author(s) -
S. K. Dube,
P. C. Sinha,
A. D. Rao
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
mausam
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.243
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 0252-9416
DOI - 10.54302/mausam.v32i3.3392
Subject(s) - storm surge , cyclone (programming language) , climatology , wind stress , wind speed , meteorology , east coast , surge , environmental science , maximum sustained wind , storm , computation , geology , wind direction , geography , oceanography , wind gradient , mathematics , engineering , algorithm , field programmable gate array , embedded system
Experiments have been performed with a numerical storm surge prediction model (1981) to simulate the surges generated by the 1977 Andhra cyclone by using various formulae representing the wind distribution in the cyclone. It is found that most of these formulations do not give a gold estimate of the observed wind associated with the Andhra cyclone. Accordingly, the computed sea surface elevations along the east coast of India do not agree with the observations.
In the present note a new formulation for the computation of the surface winds has been suggested. A comparison of the results by using the well known formulae for the wind distributions has been made.