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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Research Specialist: |
| Research Area | Water |
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| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Shiyu Wang |
| Lead Institution or Organisation | University College Dublin (UCD) |
| Lead Country | Ireland |
| Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 53.30859, -6.22577 |
| Lead Funding Entity | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Approximate Project Start Date | 01/01/2008 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 01/01/2010 |
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| Project Keywords | Water Climate; Water cycle; Ocean-Air Transfer; Coastal flooding |
| Project Abstract | The climate system of the Earth can be broken down into a number of components, and permeating all of the climate components is water. There exists robust freshwater exchange between ocean and atmosphere, and it is regarded as one of the most important processes for air-sea interaction, especially for coastal flooding study. The purpose of this study is to develop a regional atmosphere-ocean coupled model system. The regional climate model used in this study is the Rossby Center model RCA3 and the regional ocean model is ROMS. All of these models will be coupled by OASIS4 coupler program. If the flooding occurs in the estuary or harbour areas, the river discharge will be considered inside the ocean model. During the air-sea interaction, the surface heat fluxes, fresh water fluxes and wind stress will be passed from the regional climate model to the ocean model, to drive the vertical motions in the ocean that we associate with upwelling and downwelling events, while the sea surface temperature will be feed back to the regional climate model and affect the large-scale atmospheric circulation. |