By larsas | Wed, 04/06/2022 - 07:02

Capacity building projects in Asia, Africa and the Americas

Our department is involved in a number of capacity building projects outside Europe in countries like Cuba, Myanmar, Mozambique and Vietnam. These projects have been interesting and useful for our own development of open source software.

The main sponsor for these projects are the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD - www.norad.no). We have had a particularly close collaboration with colleagues at the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological forecasting in Vietnam (nchmf.gov.vn ) since 2012. The main activities in this collaboration have been model verification, storm surge modeling using ROMS ocean model (www.myroms.org ), ocean trajectory modeling using OpenDrift (opendrift.github.io ) and satellite observations of wave height using WAVY (github.com/bohlinger/wavy ). OpenDrift is used for oil spill, search and rescue and lately also for marine plastic simulations.

 

Figure 1: Example of 30 day OpenDrift simulation of marine plastic near the Mekong river delta, forced by high resolution ROMS ocean model with (blue) and without (green) river input. The simulation is carried out by master student Nguyễn Mạnh Dũng at the University in Bergen.
Figure 1: Example of 30 day OpenDrift simulation of marine plastic near the Mekong river delta, forced by high resolution ROMS ocean model with (blue) and without (green) river input. The simulation is carried out by master student Nguyễn Mạnh Dũng at the University in Bergen.


 

Figure 2: Example of collocation of satellite observations and SWAN model output over East Sea in Vietnam, using WAVY.
Figure 2: Example of collocation of satellite observations and SWAN model output over East Sea in Vietnam, using WAVY.

 

References: 

https://noradbloggen.no/2020/09/simulering-av-marin-plastforsopling-i-vietnam/ 

Thuy, N. B., Kim, S., Chien, D. D., Dang, V. H., Cuong, H. D., Wettre, C., & Hole, L. R. (2017). Assessment of storm surge along the coast of Central Vietnam. Journal of Coastal Research, 33(3), 518-530.

Thuy, N. B., Kim, S., Anh, T. N., Cuong, N. K., Thuc, P. T., & Hole, L. R. (2020). The influence of moving speeds, wind speeds, and sea level pressures on after-runner storm surges in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. Ocean Engineering, 212, 107613.

Thuy, N. B., Nandasena, N. A. K., Dang, V. H., Kim, S., Hien, N. X., Hole, L. R., & Thai, T. H. (2017). Effect of river vegetation with timber piling on ship wave attenuation: investigation by field survey and numerical modeling. Ocean Engineering, 129, 37-45.

Du Duc, T., Hoang Duc, C., Hole, L. R., Hoang, L., Luong Thi Thanh, H., & Mai Khanh, H. (2019). Impacts of different physical parameterization configurations on widespread heavy rain forecast over the northern area of Vietnam in WRF-ARW model. Advances in Meteorology, 2019.

Vo Van, H., Du Duc, T., Mai Khanh, H., Robert Hole, L., Tran Anh, D., Luong Thi Thanh, H., & Dang Dinh, Q. (2020). Assessment of Seasonal Winter Temperature Forecast Errors in the RegCM Model over Northern Vietnam. Climate, 8(6), 77.

Trung, T. N., Hole, L. R., Du Duc, T., & Minh, H. N. (2020). A Case Study of Wave Forecast Over South China Sea Using SWAN Model and Ensemble Kalman Filter Method. Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal, 12(4), 101-114.

Thuy, N. B., Tien, T. Q., Wettre, C., & Hole, L. R. (2019). Monsoon-induced surge during high tides at the southeast coast of Vietnam: A numerical modeling study. Geosciences, 9(2), 72.