A Python wrapper for coupling hydrodynamic and oil spill models
Date
2013-03-15
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
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Publisher
Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
Description
This report presents a new method
for
coupling
different
hydrodynamic models with
an
oil spill transport model. The hydrodynamic models used are the two-dimensional (2D)
TxBLEND model and the three-dimensional (3D) SELFE model. The oil spill transport
model is
the General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment (GNOME)
developed
and maintained by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA).
The
new coupling method is an
automated approach
using
Python scripting
to eliminate
the
labor-intensive
manual
reformatting of
hydrodynamic
outputs
to GNOME
inputs.
The
integrated
model
system is demonstrated by
independently
coupling GNOME
to
TxBLEND and SELFE
and modeling a
hypothetical spill in Galveston
Bay.
Keywords
hydrology, hydrodynamic modeling, oil spill, TxBLEND, SELFE, GNOME, Python