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REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE 



1. REPORT NUMBER 



Technical Report CERC-85-5 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO 



TITLE (and Sublllle) 



AN INVESTIGATION OF HURRICANE- INDUCED FORERUNNER 

 SURGE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO 



7. AUTHORfaJ 



Mahunnop Bunpapong, Robert 0. Reid, 

 Robert E. Whitaker 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of Oceanography 



Texas A&M University 



College Station, Texas 77843 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 



US Army Corps of Engineers 



Washington, DC 20314-1000 



14. MONITORING AGENCY NAME a ADDRESSf// d/Meron( Irom Controlling Olllce) 



US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



PO Box 631, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180-0631 



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3. RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 



5. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 



Final report 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERCo; 



Contract No. DACW39-82-K- 

 0001 



12. REPORT DATE 



September 1985 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 

 217 



IS. SECURITY CLASS, (ol Ihle report) 



Unclassified 



16. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT fo/ (h/a Roporl; 



Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



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IB. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 



Available from National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, 

 Springfield, Virginia 22161. 



19. KEY WORDS (Continue on reverse side II neceeaary and Identity by block number; 



Storm surges — Mathematical Models (LC) 

 Storm surges — Gulf of Mexico (LC) 



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A system of coupled, normal mode equations describing a two-layer ocean 

 basin of variable depth was derived from the quasi-hydrostatic equations of 

 motion using a general form of the method of Veronis and Stommel (1956). A 

 finite difference, time marching, numerical model for the normal mode equa- 

 tions, employing an Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) scheme, on a space- 

 staggered grid has been developed. The model is quasi-linear and allows for 



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