Wave–current interaction during Hudhud cyclone in the Bay of Bengal

Samiksha, Volvaiker; Vethamony, Ponnumony; Antony, Charls; Bhaskaran, Prasad; Nair, Balakrishnan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2059-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2059-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2059-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

Research article

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29 Nov 2017

Research article |

| 29 Nov 2017

Wave–current interaction during Hudhud cyclone in the Bay of Bengal

Volvaiker Samiksha, Ponnumony Vethamony, Charls Antony, Prasad Bhaskaran, and Balakrishnan Nair

Data sets

The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system (http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/ climate-reanalysis/era-interim) D. P. Dee et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.828

Short summary

The present work describes the interaction between waves and currents utilizing a coupled ADCIRC+SWAN model for the very severe cyclonic storm Hudhud which made landfall at Visakhapatnam on the east coast of India in October 2014. Model-computed wave and surge heights were validated with measurements near the landfall point. An increase of ≈0.2 m in H_s was observed with the inclusion of model currents.