Hurricane Matthew Storm Surge and Wave Simulations

Further details on these runs are provided in the journal article that accompanies this data. Sixteen runs of the model are included. All runs share a similar configuration of the model, with the same mesh and numerical parameters. The only differences between simulations are model forcing terms and the usage of data assimilation. The runs can be broken into two groups: 12 runs based around Hurricane Matthew (2016) and 4 runs based around an idealized test case of the data assimilation methods. Details on model input and output files can be found on http://adcirc.org the ADCIRC website. The 12 runs for Hurricane Matthew include 3 used to initialize the model and 9 varying combinations of meteorological inputs and data assimilation methods. Runs listed under Simulation Model (A) were used to initialize the Hurricane Mathew case and are likely not of interest unless one wishes to reproduce the results herein. The remaining 9 runs are in three groups of 3 runs each: Simulation Model (B.G) runs with basic-quality meteorological inputs. Simulation Model (B.N) runs with intermediate-quality meteorological inputs. Simulation Model (B.O) runs with high-quality meteorological inputs. Each of these contains a run without data assimilation (B.*.1), a run with the first data assimilation method (B.*.3), and a run with the second data assimilation method (B.*.4). Note that the corresponding data assimilation analysis for each of these are categorized as (B.*.2). The idealized test of the data assimilation methods consists of 2 model initialization runs and 2 runs comparing the methods. The two model initialization runs are under Simulation Model (C). The two runs comparing the methods are under Simulation Model (D), with one run for the first method and the second run for the second.