Theses and Dissertations

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1588-1456

Advisor

Rudzin, Johna E.

Committee Member

Dyer, Jamie L.

Committee Member

Nadal-Caraballo, Norberto C.

Date of Degree

5-16-2025

Original embargo terms

Visible MSU Only 1 year

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Campus Access Only

Major

Geoscience (Applied Meteorology)

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of Geosciences

Abstract

Tropical cyclones (TCs) are extreme weather events impacting the United States nearly every year. These events often cause severe damage due to the associated responses they produce including storm surge and rainfall, and the accurate estimation of these TC hazards is necessary to support coastal engineering, risk assessment, and emergency management activities. Evaluating TC-driven hazards is often done in combination with numerical models to simulate how environmental interactions alter the physical processes and responses of these storms. The purpose of this study was to simulate synthetic TC events using the Advanced Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to understand how rainfall varies in relation to the parameters defining each storm. Based on the results, rainfall sensitivity to changes in the magnitudes of these TC parameters was assessed to quantify differences both quantitatively and spatially. In particular, the rainfall sensitivity over land was evaluated given the importance of coastal-compound flooding hazards.

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