Operational oceanographic system for coastal hydrodynamics in Korea

Abstract

In this study, we have developed an operational oceanographic system for the coastal hydrodynamics in Korea. The operational model ROMS is coupled with wave model SWAN and nested with another hydrodynamic model ROMS, wave model SWAN, and water quality model CE-QUAL-ICM to predict the information of coastal water of Korea twice a day for 72 hours. The predicted result validated by real-time monitoring data is visualized effectively through the web-GIS system to provide predicted coastal hydrodynamics in Korea to the public. This high-resolution coastal operational oceano-graphic system will be used as a part of the development of Korea Operational Oceano-graphic System (KOOS) with other operational oceanographic system.