Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publication Date
12-2020
Journal
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Volume
8
Issue
12
First Page
979
Abstract
In this paper, subtidal responses of Barataria Bay to an atmospheric cold front in 2014 and Hurricane Barry of 2019 are studied. The cold fronts had shorter influencing periods (1 to 3 days), while Hurricane Barry had a much longer influencing period (about 1 week). Wind direction usually changes from southern quadrants to northern quadrants before and after a cold front’s passage. For a hurricane making its landfall at the norther Gulf of Mexico coast, wind variation is dependent on the location relative to the location of landfall. Consequently, water level usually reaches a trough after the maximum cold front wind usually; while after the maximum wind during a hurricane, water level mostly has a surge, especially on the right-hand side of the hurricane. Water level variation induced by Hurricane Barry is about 3 times of that induced by a cold front event. Water volume flux also shows differences under these two weather types: the volume transport during Hurricane Barry was 4 times of that during a cold front. On the other hand, cold front events are much more frequent (30–40 times a year), and they lead to more frequent exchange between Barataria Bay and the coastal ocean.
DOI
doi: 10.3390/jmse8120979
Keywords
Cold front, Hurricane Barry, Multi-inlet, Numerical simulation, Subtidal hydrodynamics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Huang, Wei and Li, C., Contrasting hydrodynamic responses to atmospheric systems with different scales: Impact of cold fronts vs. that of a hurricane (2020). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(12), 979.
doi: 10.3390/jmse8120979
