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  • Assessment of Metocean Forecast Data and Consensus Forecasting for Maritime Search and Rescue and Pollutant Response Applications

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    Author(s)
    Brushett, Ben A.
    Primary Supervisor
    Lemckert, Charles
    Other Supervisors
    Cartwright, Nick
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    Effective prediction of objects drifting on the water surface is essential to successful maritime search and rescue (SAR) services, since a more accurate prediction of the object’s likely location results in a greater probability for the success of a SAR operation. SAR drift models, based on Lagrangian stochastic particle trajectory models, are frequently utilised for this task. More recently, metocean (meteorological and oceanographic) forecast data has been used as input to these models to provide the environmental forcing (due to winds and ocean currents) that the object may be subject to. Further, the slip of a drifting ...
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    Effective prediction of objects drifting on the water surface is essential to successful maritime search and rescue (SAR) services, since a more accurate prediction of the object’s likely location results in a greater probability for the success of a SAR operation. SAR drift models, based on Lagrangian stochastic particle trajectory models, are frequently utilised for this task. More recently, metocean (meteorological and oceanographic) forecast data has been used as input to these models to provide the environmental forcing (due to winds and ocean currents) that the object may be subject to. Further, the slip of a drifting object across the water surface due to the ambient wind and waves (irrespective of currents) is described by its leeway drift coefficients, which are also required by the SAR drift model to calculate the potential drift of the object. This study examined several ways to improve the prediction of an objects drift on the water surface, with the primary focus being the improvement of SAR forecasting. To achieve this, many simulations were undertaken, comparing the trajectories of actual drifters deployed in the ocean, and the corresponding model simulations of drift, using the commercially available SARMAP (Search and Rescue Mapping and Analysis Program) SAR drift model. Each drifter trajectory was simulated independently using a different ocean model to provide ocean current forcing. The ocean models tested included BLUElink, FOAM (Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model), HYCOM (Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model) and NCOM (Navy Coastal Ocean Model).
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
    Degree Program
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    School
    Griffith School of Engineering
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/383
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    The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
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    Public
    Subject
    Metocean Forecast Data
    Maritime search and rescue (SAR) services
    Oceanographic meteorology
    Ocean currents
    Meteorological and oceanographic forecast data
    Ocean drift
    BLUElink
    FOAM (Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model)
    HYCOM (Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model)
    NCOM (Navy Coastal Ocean Model)
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367700
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