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Tetsu Hara

Professor of Oceanography

Watkins 218

thara@uri.edu

401-874-6509

http://www.po.gso.uri.edu/airsea/

Educational 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
Yackar Mauzole
Brandon Reichl

Ph.D.
M.S.
M.S.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Ph.D.

2006
2007
2008
Candidate
Candidate
Candidate

Publications:

Fan, Y., I. Ginis, T. Hara, and I. J. Moon, 2010: Momentum Flux Budget Across Air-sea Interface under Uniform and Tropical Cyclone Winds. J. Phys. Oceanogr, 40, 2221–2242.

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., 39, 2097–2116.

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.

Presentations:

Hara, T., T. Kukulka, and B .Haus, Air-sea momentum flux in the presence of frequent wave breaking events: theory and laboratory observations. AMS 17th Conference on Air–Sea Interaction, 2010.

Hara, T., T. Kukulka, and B .Haus, Breaking Waves and their Effects on Air-Sea Momentum and Scalar Transfer. The 6th International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces 2010.

Suzuki, N., T. Hara, and P. P. Sullivan, Turbulent airflow at young sea states with frequent wave breaking events: large eddy simulation. AGU Ocean Science Meeting 2010.

Hara, T. and T. Kukulka, Wave spectrum and breaking wave statistics of growing and mature seas. American Mathematical Society 2009 Fall Eastern Section Meeting.

Hara, T., Air-sea fluxes under tropical cyclones. International Workshop on Tropical Cyclone-Ocean Interaction in the Northwest Pacific (TCOI 2009).

History

Member for: 4 years 13 weeks