Tetsu Hara
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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, 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 graduate courses on geophysical fluid dynamics and air-sea interactions.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
Candidate
Candidate
2006
2003
Publications:
Kukulka, T., and T. Hara, 2008. The effect of breaking waves on a coupled model of wind and ocean surface waves: I. Mature seas, J. Phys. Oceanogr., accepted.
Kukulka, T., T. Hara, and S. E. Belcher, 2007. A model of the air-sea momentum flux and breaking wave distribution for young, strongly forced wind-waves, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36(7), 1811-1828.
Moon, I. J., I. Ginis, T. Hara, and B. Thomas, 2007. A Physics-Based Parameterization of Ai-Sea Momentum Flux at High Wind Speeds and Its Impact on Hurricane Intensity Predictions, Monthly Weather Review, 135, 2869-2878.
Song, Q., P. Cornillon, and T. Hara, 2006. Surface Wind Response to Oceanic Fronts, J. Geophys. Res., 111, C12006, doi: 10.1029/2006JC003680
Scott, N. V., T. Hara, E. J. Walsh, and P. Hwang, 2005. Observations of steep wave statistics in open ocean waters, J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 22(3) 258-271.
Presentations:
Kukulka, T, and T. Hara, Effects of breaking waves on a coupled wind-wave model and air-sea momentum flux, AGU Ocean Science Meeting 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.
Hara, T., T. Kukulka and S. E. Belcher, Effects of breaking and non-breaking waves on wave boundary layer turbulence and air-sea momentum flux, Norwegian Meterological Institute Workshop: Influence of waves on turbulence in the atmosphere and ocean boundary layer, 2007.
Ginis, I., Y. Fan and T. Hara, Effect of wind-wave-current interaction on air-sea momentum fluxes and ocean response to hurricanes, AMS 15th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction 2007.
Hara, T., Vaniwegen E., Wendelbo, J., Garbe, C., Schimpf, U., Jahne, B., Frew, N., Bock, E.. Estimation of air-sea gas and heat fluxes from infrared imagery based on near surface turbulence models, International Workshop on Transport at the Air-Sea Interface Heidelberg, Germany, September 2006.
