Tetsu Hara
Profile Page
Tetsu Hara
Professor of OceanographyWatkins 218401-874-6509Educational Background
Ph.D., Civil Engineering
M.S., Civil Engineering
B.S., Civil Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo
1990
1986
1983
Areas of Specialization
Research
Tetsu Hara's current research interests include generation, evolution, and breaking of ocean surface waves, sea spray and bubbles, and mass, heat, energy, and momentum fluxes at the air-sea interface. He also researches the impact of air-sea fluxes on tropical cyclone predictions.Teaching
Tetsu Hara teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on geophysical fluid dynamicsm, air-sea interaction, and surface wave and storm surge modeling.Students
Tobias Kukulka
Eric Vaninwegen
Cheng-An Tung
Nobuhiro Suzuki
Michael Sutherland
Nicholas Scott
Ph.D.
M.S.
M.S.
Ph.D.
M.S.
Ph.D.
2006
2007
2008
Candidate
2006
2003
Publications:
Fan, Y., I. Ginis, and T. Hara, 2009: The Effect of Wind-Wave-Current Interaction on Air-Sea Momentum Fluxes and Ocean Response in Tropical Cyclones. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 39, 1015–1030.
Fan, Y., I. Ginis, T. Hara, C. W. Wright, and E. J. Walsh, 2009: Numerical simulations and observations of surface wave fields under an extreme tropical cyclone. J. Phys. Oceanogr., in press.
Kukulka, T., and T. Hara, 2008: The effect of breaking waves on a coupled model of wind and ocean surface waves. Part I: Mature seas, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 2145-2163.
Kukulka, T., and T. Hara, 2008: The effect of breaking waves on a coupled model of wind and ocean surface waves. Part II: Growing seas, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 2164-2184.
Kukulka, T., T. Hara, and S. E. Belcher, 2007. A model of the air-sea momentum flux and breaking-wave distribution for strongly forced wind waves, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 1811-1828.
Presentations:
Hara, T., Air-sea fluxes under tropical cyclones. International Workshop on Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interaction in the Northwest Pacific (TCOI 2009).
Hara, T., Kukulka, T. Wave spectrum and breaking wave statistics of growing and mature seas. International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies (IWWWFB), 2009.
Hara, T; Fan, Y; Ginis, I, Effect of wind-wave-current interaction on air-sea momentum and TKE fluxes and ocean response to hurricanes, EGU General Assembly 2008.
Kukulka, T.; Hara, T.; Belcher, S.E., Air-sea momentum flux over breaking and non-breaking surface waves, EGU General Assembly 2008.
Lauffenburger, N E, T. Hara, D. Ullman, and S. Vagle, Obervation of near surface bubble structures using an underwater sonar system, AGU Ocean Science Meeting 2008.
