Coupled wave-circulation results from the SWAN+ADCIRC models for a best-track hindcast of hurricane Isaac (August 2012) in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

The data consists of hydrodynamic and atmospheric model input and output defined on unstructured triangular meshes used by the tightly-coupled SWAN wave and ADCIRC circulation models. The models use the best-track hindcast data for Isaac (2012) from the National Hurricane Center to develop an asymmetric wind field based on the method from Holland (1980). The models are then forced on a relatively-coarse mesh called EC95, which contains coverage of the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and western North Atlantic Ocean, but which does not contain coverage of the floodplains of southern Louisiana. Full sets of input and output files are included. This dataset was created by the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE). This research was made possible by a grant from BP/The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. This study is described in the following reference: JC Dietrich, CN Dawson, JM Proft, MT Howard, G Wells, JG Fleming, RA Luettich Jr, JJ Westerink, Z Cobell, M Vitse, H Lander, BO Blanton, CM Szpilka, JH Atkinson, "Real-Time Forecasting and Visualization of Hurricane Waves and Storm Surge using SWAN+ADCIRC and FigureGen", Computational Challenges in the Geosciences Series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 156, 2013.