This project uses the outputs of runs of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model to examine the connection between marine heatwaves in the Gulf and coastal temperatures and humidity in the Houston/Galveston Bay region. Currently we are focusing on a heatwave in late March/early April of 2017.
This is part of an initiative with GCOOS, started in the fall of 2024 and still under active development. Please contact Ren Poulton Kamakura ([email protected]) if you have any questions.
- 01Data: contains the wrfout files from the WRF model runs (often too large to be on GitHub but can be requested)
- 02Code: contains the data analysis and management codes. The Python codes are primarily for reformatting wrfout files and for some basic vualizations. The R codes are for exploratory data analysis and spatial mixed-effects regressions
- 03ProcessedData: Outputs from data cleaning codes in the previous folder, used in data analysis. Again, many are too large to currently appear in the GitHub repository
- 04Visuals: Figures and other visuals from exploratory data analysis or more in-depth analysis
- 05AnalysisOutputs: Spreadsheets or rds files that contain the results of regression analyses (model parameter estimates, etc.)
Since the project is in its early stages and the outputs are primarily data analysis and not applications, please contact [email protected] if you would like to contribute.
WRF runs were possible due to support from Dr. Dan Fu at Texas A&M University, Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing and technical support from Xiao Qi at GCOOS.