Numerical simulation of typhoon storm surge in Zhujiang River Estuary

In this paper,the storm surge model which has been operated by the National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center has been used to simulate the storm surge initiated by three northwest directional typhoons in South China Sea.By contrast with the results generated by the original model and the data collected from the tide stations,it is found that the model can simulate the whole process well,especially for the peak value.Furthermore,we find that the peak value will be more accurate while the typhoon gets stronger;the peak value usually appeared after the center of typhoon had a shortest distance from of these tide stations for a few hours’period..