THE MECHANISMS OF AFTER-RUNNER STORM
SURGE ALONG THE NORTH COAST OF VIETNAM
Nguyen Ba Thuy Marine forecasting division
Vietnam National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting
Hanoi, 26 Februal 2018
Storm surge
Abnormal water level (Meteorological tsunami)
Spring tide (Hight tide
+ surge induced by moonson)
Coastal risk related to high water level in Vietnam
Hoang Sa
Truong Sa
High Vulnerable storm surge (abundant typhoon +
shallow water)
Less Vulnerable storm surge (rare typhoon + deep water)
Less Vulnerable storm surge
(shallow water +rare typhoon)
Number of
Typhoon
Typhoon and Storm Surge in Vietnam
June
Dec.
Tracks of typhoon in 2017
Typhoon number 2 (July/2017)
6 peoble was die and missing, more than 100 ship was broken by high wave
Coastal inundation due to typhoon No 10 (Sep./2017)
Typhoon number 10 (9/2017)
Typhoon number 12
(Nov./2017)
6 cargo ships was sink, 11 peoble
die and 2 mising. More than 2000
ship broken by high wave
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ge h
eigh
t (m
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Time (h)
Observation
Without wave
With wave
Numerical Model:
- JMA model -2D ROMS - SuWAT ( Best track or WRF)
Time serial of storm surge
Storm surge research and prediction
Coastal inundation due to tide + storm surge + wave setup
The after runner storm surge on the North coast of Vietnam
Area: The north coast of Vietnam
Typhoon frequency: 1.5 typhoons/year
Maximum storm surge: 3.4m
The after runner storm surge: 6 cases/50 years
Hoang Sa
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Time (h)
Storm surge at Hondau station during typhoon Wukong (2005) and Kalmaegy (2016)
Typhoon landfall
Typhoon landfall
Normal storm surge
After runner storm surge
The after runner storm surge
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urge
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Observation water level, predicted tide and
storm surge at Hondau station
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Time (h)
H (
cm)
Total water level
Prediced tide
Surge
Time of typhoon landfall
time interval of
urge exceed 0.5m
The after runner of storm surge cases
Kalmaegi (9/2014)
Mirinae (7/2016)
Typhoon land fall
Inundated
No inundation
- Damage by wind is not much.
- But Storm surge + high tide + high wave
generated inundation at Haiphong coast
after the typhoon landfall 5 hours.
Track of typhoon Kalmaegy
Typhoon Kalmaegi (9/2014) – After runner storm surge case
High wave and inundation at Haiphong coast
- Empirical Typhoon Model:
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Du
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(Fujita model)
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r
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Operational Forecasting Model in 9/2014 (conventional method)
Two dimensional long wave model + Empirical Typhoon Model
Result of Operational forecasting (2D long wave model + Fujita model)
Simulated result showed storm surge not high at Hondau station, and at low tide –> No warning. But infact inundation occurred. We miss warning
Maximum storm surge
Model and observation storm surge
Typhoon track
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Stor
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urge
(m
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Time (h)
OBS
FUJITA
Typhoon Landfall
Storm surge observation data
Time profile of total water, tide and storm surge at Hondau (a) and Honngu station (b)
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Z (
m)
Time (h)
OBS
Prec. Tide
Storm surge
Typhoon Landfall
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Z(m
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Time (h)
OBS
Predic. Tide
Storm surge
Typhoon land fall
(a)
(b)
Two Dimensional Long wave Model + SWAN
F: The wave force- which correspond to the gradients of wave-induced radiation stress
s The wind stress (including wave dependent drag)
2. Numerical Model (coupled of surge wave and tide)
- The case uncoupled with wave: The conventional CD (Honda and Mitsuyasu, 1980). Sure
induced by wind stress and air pressure only:
- The case coupled with wave: The wave dependent drag CD (Janssen, 1991). The stress on the surface consider wave:
Stress on the surface
10 10W Ws a DC
Computational domains for WRF and Storm surge model
WRF model
Geophysical domains of the study area with three levels. (a) shows the outermost domain of the Vietnam coast. (b) shows the intermediate domain. (c) focuses on the innermost domain with Hondau station.
Results of SuWAT + WRF model
Comparison of calculated and simulated storm surge at two station using wind and pressure from WRF
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m su
rge
(m)
Time (h)
OBS
WRF
Typhoon landfall
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m s
urge
(m
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Time (h)
Observation
WRF
Fujita
Typhoon landfall
Measured and predicted pressure (above) and
wind speed (below) and at Hondau station
The WRF model simulated well wind and pressure than the
empirical typhoon model
Wind and pressure data
Comparison of calculated and simulated storm surge at two station for two case using WRF model. One using front and tail wind field (above), the other using the front wind field only (below).
Effect of front and tail wind field on storm surge
Storm surge at Hondau station is mostly induced by tail wind. But at Honngu station is due to the inertia force
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WRF-No wind after land fall
No wind after typhoon land fall
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urge
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The result at the Honngu station is not so much different between two cases. It means storm surge at Honngu station is due to water moving from North to the south ?.
Maximum storm surge for the case the model using front and tail wind field (left) and front wind field only (right)
Effect of front and tail wind field on storm surge
Honngu
Hondau
At the time typhoon land fall (water level at two station is down) After typhoon land fall 4 hour (water level at Hondau station is going up)
After typhoon land fall 6 hour (water level at Hondau station get maximun)
The tail wind fields of typhoons are more important than front wind fields.
How the surge generated at the Northern part (Hondau station)
Wind and water surface elevation
After typhoon land fall 4 hour (water level at Hondau station is going up)
Water surface elevation and current
Storm surge on the southern part (Honngu station) due to the tail wind
and water moving from the north.
How the surge generate at the Southern part (Honngu station)
Wind and water surface elevation
After typhoon land fall 8 hour
Effect of wind and pressure on storm surge
Comparison of calculated and simulated storm surge at two station for 3 cases of wind + pressure, wind only and pressure only (data from WRF model). The contribution of wind is mainly.
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m s
urge
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Time (h)
OBS
Wind and pressure
Win only
Pressure only
Effect of tide storm surge
Comparison of simulated and observation storm surge. The simulated results for two case, with and without consider tide.
Effect of wave on storm surge
Comparison of simulated and observation storm surge. The simulated results for two case, with and without consider wave.
Conclusions:
-During the typhoon Kalmaegy, the surge reach up to one metter after the typhoon landfalled and the duration of up to half a day.
-The SuWAT model gave the results closed to the observation data in both the height and the duration when using wind and pressure from the WRF model. Meanwhile, the traditional method of using the empirical typhoon model gave undersimated.
- The strong tail wind is the main cause of the after-runner surge in this case.
Flooding in Ho Chi Minh City in
20/11/2011 Maximum tide amplitude
Spring tide in Hochiminh city
Spring tide in Hochiminh City is related to Surge induced by
monsoon or not?
It related to flooding in Hochiminh
City on 20/10/2013
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Spring tide in Hochiminh city on 20/10/2013
* Vung Tau
Hochiminh city
Time profile of total water surface elevation, predicted and measure
surge height
Maximum water surface elevation during the monsoon 10/2013
Wind field at 20/10/2013 Spring tide = high tide+ surge (by moonson)
High Oscillation of water level on the middle coast of Vietnam
High tide at Tuyhoa in Dec. 2016
(No typhoon and calm wind. But the
inundunation height up to 1m, and go in
land up to 200m). Meteorological
tsunami?.
Time serial of total water level, tide and surge
To simulate this phenomenal need high resolution of ocean and atmosphere model. Next study
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Z (c
m)
Time (h)
OBS Tide Surge
local/rear/tail winds
front winds