Development of a cross-scale hydrodynamic model for all Texas coastal waters
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Develop a hydrodynamic model to include all Texas coastal bays for the state agency, Texas Water Development Board (TWDB). TWDB will use this model for real-time forecasting and freshwater management. It will also assist the Texas General Land Office in oil spill response by providing a more accurate velocity field.
In collaboration with TWDB, researchers at College of Marine Sciences and Maritime Studies, Texas A&M University (TAMU) have developed a hydrodynamic model for the entire Texas coastal waters, resolving detailed bathymetric and geometric features of the coastal bays, including all major and minor bays and estuaries, such as Galveston Bay, Matagorda Bay, San Antonio Bay, Aransas Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, and Laguna Madre. The model is based on Du et al. (2019), which used SCHISM (https://github.com/schism-dev: Zhang et al. 2016), an advanced, open-source model system that has been successfully applied worldwide.
In this project, the TAMU modeling team: 1) refined the model mesh for all major bays; 2) used updated bathymetry data from multiple reliable data sources; 3) created Python-based tools to download data, prepare model inputs, and analyze model outputs.
