Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling

The FVCOM development team has successfully coupled FVCOM with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF)  through the Earth System Model Framework (ESMF). The coupled FVCOM-WRF model is configured with either hydrostatic or non-hydrostatic oceanic dynamics and can run with wave-current interactions. This model has examined the air-sea interaction processes attributed to the 2012 Hurricane Sandy’s path and intensity in the U.S. Northeast and the 2017 Typhoon Hato in the South China Sea. A detailed description of Hurricane Sandy’s experiments was given by Li and Chen (2022), and the animation displayed here is to highlight the success of the coupling model experiment under a non-hydrostatic condition.