Reanalysis of Typhoon Meteorological Fields and Related Waves and Surges in the Seto Inland Sea

Meteorological fields and oceanographical conditions of storm surges, waves, currents in the Seto Inland Sea, have not been numerically studied well in sufficient accuracy because of the complicated topographical and bathymetric features such as surrounding mountainous area and a number of islands. Reanalysis of the meteorological fields and related waves and storm surges in the Seto Inland Sea was carried out for past 20 typhoons in 1971-2008 by using a third generation storm surge model which is a atmosphere-wind wave-ocean coupled model. The reanalyzed results in case of T9313 and T0416 show good accordance with observed data depicting topographical and bathymetric features should be resolved accurately in numerical modeling.