Impact of the interaction of surge, wave and tide on a storm surge on the north coast of Vietnam

Abstract

In the present paper, the interaction of surge, wave and tide on the north coast of Vietnamis assessed using a coupled model of surge, wave and tide. A series of storm surge simulations for Typhoons Frankie (1996) andWashi (2005) are carried out, considering the effects of the tide and the wave that combines a wave dependent drag and wave-induced radiation stress to find out a predominant factor in the storm surge generation. Typhoon Frankieis landfalled at the low tide while TyphoonWashi landfalled at the high tide. The results indicate that the effect of the wave is crucial to the storm surge simulation. In particular, the wave induced-surge improves the accuracy of the storm surge level up to 30 %. It also shows that the surge induced by wave radiation stress is dependant with the space resolution, and the finest resolution is improved and in close agreement with the observation. On the other hand, the influence of the tide is ignorable for the case of Typhoon Frankie and considerable in the case of Typhoon Washi.