TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards an end-to-end analysis and prediction system for weather, climate, and marine applications in the Red Sea
AU - Hoteit, Ibrahim
AU - Abualnaja, Yasser
AU - Afzal, Shehzad
AU - Ait-El-Fquih, Boujemaa
AU - Akylas, Triantaphyllos
AU - Antony, Charls
AU - Dawson, Clint
AU - Asfahani, Khaled
AU - Brewin, Robert J.
AU - Cavaleri, Luigi
AU - Cerovecki, Ivana
AU - Cornuelle, Bruce
AU - Desamsetti, Srinivas
AU - Attada, Raju
AU - Dasari, Hari
AU - Sanchez-Garrido, Jose
AU - Genevier, Lily
AU - El Gharamti, Mohamad
AU - Gittings, John A.
AU - Gokul, Elamurugu
AU - Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh
AU - Guo, Daquan
AU - Hadri, Bilel
AU - Hadwiger, Markus
AU - Hammoud, Mohammed Abed
AU - Hendershott, Myrl
AU - Hittawe, Mohamad
AU - Karumuri, Ashok
AU - Knio, Omar
AU - Köhl, Armin
AU - Kortas, Samuel
AU - Krokos, George
AU - Kunchala, Ravi
AU - Issa, Leila
AU - Lakkis, Issam
AU - Langodan, Sabique
AU - Lermusiaux, Pierre
AU - Luong, Thang
AU - Ma, Jingyi
AU - Le Maitre, Olivier
AU - Mazloff, Matthew
AU - El Mohtar, Samah
AU - Papadopoulos, Vassilis P.
AU - Platt, Trevor
AU - Pratt, Larry
AU - Raboudi, Naila
AU - Racault, Marie-Fanny
AU - Raitsos, Dionysios E.
AU - Razak, Shanas
AU - Sanikommu, Sivareddy
AU - Sathyendranath, Shubha
AU - Sofianos, Sarantis
AU - Subramanian, Aneesh
AU - Sun, Rui
AU - Titi, Edriss
AU - Toye, Habib
AU - Triantafyllou, George
AU - Tsiaras, Kostas
AU - Vasou, Panagiotis
AU - Viswanadhapalli, Yesubabu
AU - Wang, Yixin
AU - Yao, Fengchao
AU - Zhang, Peng
AU - Zodiatis, George
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - The Red Sea, home to the second-longest coral reef system in the world, is a vital resource for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Red Sea provides 90% of the Kingdom’s potable water by desalinization, supporting tourism, shipping, aquaculture, and fishing industries, which together contribute about 10%–20% of the country’s GDP. All these activities, and those elsewhere in the Red Sea region, critically depend on oceanic and atmospheric conditions. At a time of mega-development projects along the Red Sea coast, and global warming, authorities are working on optimizing the harnessing of environmental resources, including renewable energy and rainwater harvesting. All these require high-resolution weather and climate information. Toward this end, we have undertaken a multipronged research and development activity in which we are developing an integrated data-driven regional coupled modeling system. The telescopically nested components include 5-km- to 600-m-resolution atmospheric models to address weather and climate challenges, 4-km- to 50-m-resolution ocean models with regional and coastal configurations to simulate and predict the general and mesoscale circulation, 4-km- to 100-m-resolution ecosystem models to simulate the biogeochemistry, and 1-km- to 50-m-resolution wave models. In addition, a complementary probabilistic transport modeling system predicts dispersion of contaminant plumes, oil spill, and marine ecosystem connectivity. Advanced ensemble data assimilation capabilities have also been implemented for accurate forecasting. Resulting achievements include significant advancement in our understanding of the regional circulation and its connection to the global climate, development, and validation of long-term Red Sea regional atmospheric–oceanic–wave reanalyses and forecasting capacities. These products are being extensively used by academia, government, and industry in various weather and marine studies and operations, environmental policies, renewable energy applications, impact assessment, flood forecasting, and more.
AB - The Red Sea, home to the second-longest coral reef system in the world, is a vital resource for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Red Sea provides 90% of the Kingdom’s potable water by desalinization, supporting tourism, shipping, aquaculture, and fishing industries, which together contribute about 10%–20% of the country’s GDP. All these activities, and those elsewhere in the Red Sea region, critically depend on oceanic and atmospheric conditions. At a time of mega-development projects along the Red Sea coast, and global warming, authorities are working on optimizing the harnessing of environmental resources, including renewable energy and rainwater harvesting. All these require high-resolution weather and climate information. Toward this end, we have undertaken a multipronged research and development activity in which we are developing an integrated data-driven regional coupled modeling system. The telescopically nested components include 5-km- to 600-m-resolution atmospheric models to address weather and climate challenges, 4-km- to 50-m-resolution ocean models with regional and coastal configurations to simulate and predict the general and mesoscale circulation, 4-km- to 100-m-resolution ecosystem models to simulate the biogeochemistry, and 1-km- to 50-m-resolution wave models. In addition, a complementary probabilistic transport modeling system predicts dispersion of contaminant plumes, oil spill, and marine ecosystem connectivity. Advanced ensemble data assimilation capabilities have also been implemented for accurate forecasting. Resulting achievements include significant advancement in our understanding of the regional circulation and its connection to the global climate, development, and validation of long-term Red Sea regional atmospheric–oceanic–wave reanalyses and forecasting capacities. These products are being extensively used by academia, government, and industry in various weather and marine studies and operations, environmental policies, renewable energy applications, impact assessment, flood forecasting, and more.
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U2 - 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0005.1
DO - 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0005.1
M3 - Article
VL - 102
SP - E99–E122
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
SN - 0003-0007
IS - 1
ER -
