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Investigation of atmospheric conditions associated with a storm surge in the south-west of Iran
USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications
  • Esmaeil Abbasi
  • Hana Etemadi
  • Joseph M. Smoak, University of South Florida
  • Iman Rousta
  • Haraldur Olafsson
  • Piotr Baranowski
  • Jaromir Krzyszczak
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Joseph M. Smoak

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Abstract

Severe thunderstorms are often accompanied by strong vertical air currents, temporary wind gusts, and heavy rainfall. The development of this atmospheric phenomenon over tropical shallow water zones, such as bays, can lead to intensification of atmospheric disturbances and produce a small-scale storm surge. Here, the storm surge that occurred on 19 March 2017 in the Persian Gulf coastal area has been investigated. Air temperature, precipitation, mean sea level pres-sure, wave height, wind direction, wind speed, geopotential height, zonal components, meridional winds, vertical velocity, relative humidity, and specific humidity obtained from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and Global Forecast System (FNL) were used to implement the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The results showed that the main cause of the storm surge was the occurrence of a supercell thunderstorm over the Persian Gulf. The formation of this destructive phenomenon resulted from a downburst under Cumulonimbus cloud and high-velocity air subsidence, after collision with the sea surface coinciding with the high tide. This caused a severe, yet temporary, gust, which in turn caused the creation of the four waves of 3.1 m height along the coast of Bandar Dayyer.

Language
en_US
Publisher
MDPI
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
Citation Information
Abbasi, E., Etemadi, H., Smoak, J.M., Rousta, I., Olafsson, H., Baranowski, P., & Krzyszczak, J. (2021) Investigation of Atmospheric Conditions Associated with a Storm Surge in the South-West of Iran. Atmosphere, 12 (11), 1-15. https:// doi.org/10.3390/atmos12111429