Auxiliary material for Paper 2007GL029679

Highly resolved observations and simulations of the ocean response to a hurricane

Thomas B. Sanford
Applied Physics Laboratory and School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

James F. Price
Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

James B. Girton
Applied Physics Laboratory and School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 

Douglas C. Webb
Webb Research Corporation, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA

Sanford, T. B., J. F. Price, J. B. Girton, and D. C. Webb (2007), Highly resolved observations and simulations of the ocean response to a hurricane, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, LXXXXX, doi:10.1029/2007GL029679.

Introduction

This collection of files is meant to provide additional supporting data for the brief article, 'Highly resolved observations and simulations of the ocean response to a hurricane'.  The intent here is to provide the data required to define the hurricane winds and the ocean initial condition that are required for running a 3-D ocean numerical model of the  response to CBLAST Hurricane Frances (2004).  

The files are as follows:

1. 2007gl029679-ts01.txt
The ocean IC used in the model: T(z) and S(z) observed pre-Frances in the CBLAST region by EM-APEX float 1633 (EM-APEX is by Tom Sanford and Doug Webb).  The columns are depth (m), temperature (C), and salinity. 

2. 2007gl029679-ts02.txt
The hurricane wind stress field  derived from HWIND analysis of Frances observations.  HWIND is by NOAA/AOML/HRD who should be acknowledged in any use of this data. The coordinates are storm-centered: columns are x (km), y(km), u (m/sec), v (m/sec), taux (m/sec), tauy (m/sec), where stress was computed using the Powell et al (2003) drag coefficient as  described in the GRL article.  

3. 2007gl029679-fs01.tif
Pre-Frances T(z), S(z). 

4. 2007gl029679-fs02.tif
The stress vectors from Table S2. 

5. 2007gl029679-fs03.tif
Wind speed as a function of radius.