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  • Meteorology and Oceanography
  • Spatial Statistics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

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  • Hurricanes pose significant threats, including storm surge, which is the primary driver of coastal damage.
  • Accurate forecasting of hurricane-force winds is essential for predicting storm surge and coastal flooding.
  • Current deterministic modeling approaches for wind fields are computationally expensive, hindering advancements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel multivariate spatial model for vector fields, specifically applied to hurricane winds.
  • To address the computational limitations of existing methods for modeling hurricane wind fields.
  • To improve the accuracy and efficiency of numerical forecasts for coastal ocean responses to hurricanes.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a multivariate spatial model for vector fields, parameterizing wind vectors in polar coordinates.
  • Specified a circular conditional autoregressive (CCAR) model for wind vector direction.
  • Utilized a spatial conditional autoregressive (CAR) model for wind speed.
  • Applied the framework to hurricane surface wind fields from Hurricane Floyd (1999).

Main Results:

  • The proposed CCAR model offers a more computationally efficient alternative to traditional methods.
  • Comparison with methods decomposing wind into cardinal components (N-S, W-E) demonstrates the effectiveness of the polar coordinate approach.
  • The model successfully captures the spatial characteristics of hurricane wind fields.

Conclusions:

  • The developed multivariate spatial model provides a computationally feasible and effective approach for analyzing hurricane wind fields.
  • This framework can enhance the accuracy of storm surge and coastal flooding predictions.
  • The CCAR model represents a significant advancement in the statistical modeling of vector fields for meteorological applications.