Towards an End-to-End Analysis and Prediction System for Weather, Climate, and Marine Applications in the Red Sea
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Hoteit, Ibrahim
Abualnaja, Yasser
Afzal, Shehzad
Ait-El-Fquih, Boujemaa
Akylas, Triantaphyllos
Antony, Charls
Dawson, Clint
Asfahani, Khaled
Brewin, Robert J.
Cavaleri, Luigi
Cerovecki, Ivana
Cornuelle, Bruce
Desamsetti, Srinivas
Attada, Raju
Dasari, Hari Prasad

Sanchez-Garrido, Jose
Genevier, Lily
El Gharamti, Mohamad
Gittings, John

Gokul, Elamurugu
Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh
Guo, Daquan

Hadri, Bilel
Hadwiger, Markus

Hammoud, Mohammed Abed
Hendershott, Myrl
Hittawe, Mohamad
Karumuri, Ashok
Knio, Omar

Köhl, Armin
Kortas, Samuel
Krokos, Georgios
Kunchala, Ravi
Issa, Leila
Lakkis, Issam
Langodan, Sabique

Lermusiaux, Pierre
Luong, Thang

Ma, Jingyi
Le Maitre, Olivier
Mazloff, Matthew
El Mohtar, Samah
Papadopoulos, Vassilis P.
Platt, Trevor
Pratt, Larry
Raboudi, Naila Mohammed Fathi

Racault, Marie-Fanny
Raitsos, Dionysios E.
Razak, Shanas
Sanikommu, Siva Reddy

Sathyendranath, Shubha
Sofianos, Sarantis
Subramanian, Aneesh
Sun, Rui
Titi, Edriss
Toye, Habib

Triantafyllou, George
Tsiaras, Kostas
Vasou, Panagiotis

Viswanadhapalli, Yesubabu
Wang, Yixin

Yao, Fengchao

Zhan, Peng

Zodiatis, George
KAUST Department
Earth Science and Engineering ProgramPhysical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Beacon Development Company
Office of the CAO
Marine Science
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division
Marine Science Program
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Computational Scientists
Computer Science Program
Visual Computing Center (VCC)
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program
Earth Science and Engineering
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2021-01Embargo End Date
2021-07-01Permanent link to this record
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AbstractThe 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.Citation
Hoteit, I., Abualnaja, Y., Afzal, S., Ait-El-Fquih, B., Akylas, T., Antony, C., … Cavaleri, L. (2021). Towards an End-to-End Analysis and Prediction System for Weather, Climate, and Marine Applications in the Red Sea. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(1), E99–E122. doi:10.1175/bams-d-19-0005.1Sponsors
Dedicated to the bright memory of Professor Trevor Platt, a pioneer in biological oceanography and a key contributor to Red Sea research. The development of the Red Sea modeling system is being supported by the Virtual Red Sea Initiative and the Competitive Research Grants (CRG) program from the Office of Sponsored Research at KAUST, Saudi Aramco Company through the Saudi ARAMCO Marine Environmental Center at KAUST, and by funds from KAEC, NEOM, and RSP through Beacon Development Company at KAUST.Publisher
American Meteorological Societyae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1175/bams-d-19-0005.1