Gulf of Mexico - Ocean Response to Hurricanes



Hurricane Ike (Sep/03-Sep/13/2008) 3hrly w/track: SSH

The storm surge first initiated near Louisiana and quickly
propagated westward to Texas. Min/Max SSH are plotted as blue star and
red square respectively and their values are printed just below the plot
title; the lon/lat of max ssh is also shown. Highest exceeded 5m on
Sep/13/12Z right at Galveston.
The model computed the location of peak surge
on target, but overestimated magnitude by 2~3 ft.

Hurricane Gustav (Aug/25-Sep/01/2008) 3-daily SSH & SST Analyses
3hrly w/track:
SSH & SST



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