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Joannes J. Westerink is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States and specializes in research within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to meteorological and oceanographic phenomena. Key topics include Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Earthquake and Tsunami Effects.

Westerink has published numerous papers in several prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include UNC Libraries, Geoscientific Model Development, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Coastal Engineering, and Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Westerink are:

  • Global storm tide modeling with ADCIRC v55: unstructured mesh design and performance, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Hazard Assessment for Typhoon-Induced Coastal Flooding and Inundation in Shanghai, China, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Dissipation and Bathymetric Sensitivities in an Unstructured Mesh Global Tidal Model, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Tsunami wave run-up load reduction inside a building array, 2021, Coastal Engineering
  • Storm surges and extreme sea levels: Review, establishment of model intercomparison and coordination of surge climate projection efforts (SurgeMIP), 2024, Weather and Climate Extremes

Westerink collaborates regularly with a set of frequent coauthors who contribute to their research efforts. These coauthors include:

  • Damrongsak Wirasaet
  • William Pringle
  • Steven Brus
  • Coleman Blakely
  • Saeed Moghimi

Their academic contributions emphasize modeling and behavior analysis of coastal and oceanic processes, storm tides, typhoon-induced flooding, tidal modeling, tsunami effects, and storm surge phenomena. This multifaceted focus integrates both theoretical and applied aspects of environmental and planetary sciences, contributing to an understanding of complex atmospheric and oceanographic dynamics.

Best Publications

  • ADCIRC: An Advanced Three-Dimensional Circulation Model for Shelves, Coasts, and Estuaries. Report 1. Theory and Methodology of ADCIRC-2DDI and ADCIRC-3DL.

    R A Luettich;J J Westerink;Norman W Scheffner

  • Modeling hurricane waves and storm surge using integrally-coupled, scalable computations

    J. C. Dietrich;M. Zijlema;J. J. Westerink;L. H. Holthuijsen

  • A Basin to Channel-Scale Unstructured Grid Hurricane Storm Surge Model Applied to Southern Louisiana

    Joannes J. Westerink;Richard A. Luettich;Jesse C. Feyen;Jesse C. Feyen;John H. Atkinson

  • A High-Resolution Coupled Riverine Flow, Tide, Wind, Wind Wave, and Storm Surge Model for Southern Louisiana and Mississippi. Part I: Model Development and Validation

    S. Bunya;J. C. Dietrich;J. J. Westerink;B. A. Ebersole

  • Modeling the physics of storm surges

    Donald T. Resio;Joannes J. Westerink

  • Performance of the Unstructured-Mesh, SWAN+ADCIRC Model in Computing Hurricane Waves and Surge

    J. C. Dietrich;J. C. Dietrich;S. Tanaka;J. J. Westerink;Clinton N Dawson

  • A High-Resolution Coupled Riverine Flow, Tide, Wind, Wind Wave, and Storm Surge Model for Southern Louisiana and Mississippi. Part II: Synoptic Description and Analysis of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

    J. C. Dietrich;S. Bunya;S. Bunya;J. J. Westerink;B. A. Ebersole

  • Hurricane Gustav (2008) Waves and Storm Surge: Hindcast, Synoptic Analysis, and Validation in Southern Louisiana

    J. C. Dietrich;J. J. Westerink;A. B. Kennedy;J. M. Smith

  • Tide and Storm Surge Predictions Using Finite Element Model

    J. J. Westerink;R. A. Luettich;A. M. Baptists;N. W. Scheffner

  • Hindcast and validation of Hurricane Ike (2008) waves, forerunner, and storm surge

    M. E. Hope;J. J. Westerink;A. B. Kennedy;P. C. Kerr

  • ADCIRC: An Advanced Three-Dimensional Circulation Model for Shelves, Coasts, and Estuaries. Report 2. User's Manual for ADCIRC-2DDI

    J. J. Westerink;R. A. Luettich;C. A. Blain;Norman W. Scheffner

  • Modelling tides in the western North Atlantic using unstructured graded grids

    J. J. Westerink;Richard A Luettich;J. C. Muccino

  • The influence of domain size on the response characteristics of a hurricane storm surge model

    C. A. Blain;J. J. Westerink;R. A. Luettich

  • Aspects of nonlinear simulations using shallow-water models based on the wave continuity equation

    R.L. Kolar;J.J. Westerink;M.E. Cantekin;C.A. Blain

  • Shallow water modeling in spherical coordinates: equation formulation, numerical implementation, and application

    R. L. Kolar;W. G. Gray;J. J. Westerink;R. A. Luettich

  • hp Discontinuous Galerkin methods for advection dominated problems in shallow water flow

    Ethan J. Kubatko;Joannes J. Westerink;Clinton N Dawson

  • Origin of the Hurricane Ike forerunner surge

    Andrew B. Kennedy;Uriah Gravois;Brian C. Zachry;Joannes J. Westerink

  • A wetting and drying treatment for the Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin solution to the shallow water equations

    Shintaro Bunya;Ethan J. Kubatko;Joannes J. Westerink;Clinton N Dawson

  • Eastcoast 2001, A Tidal Constituent Database for Western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea

    A Y Mukai;J J Westerink;R A Luettich;D Mark

  • Tropical cyclone inundation potential on the Hawaiian Islands of Oahu and Kauai

    Andrew B. Kennedy;Joannes J. Westerink;Jane M. Smith;Mark E. Hope

  • ADCIRC: An Advanced Three-Dimensional Circulation Model for Shelves, Coasts, and Estuaries. Report 6. Development of a Tidal Constituent Database for the Eastern North Pacific.

    J. L. Hench;R. A. Luettich;J. J. Westerink;N. W. Scheffner

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Luettich
Richard A. Luettich University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Clint Dawson
Clint Dawson The University of Texas at Austin
Mark D. Powell
Mark D. Powell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Kwok Fai Cheung
Kwok Fai Cheung University of Hawaii at Manoa
William G. Gray
William G. Gray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scott C. Hagen
Scott C. Hagen Louisiana State University
Robert H. Weisberg
Robert H. Weisberg University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Nadia Pinardi
Nadia Pinardi University of Bologna
Changsheng Chen
Changsheng Chen University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Robert R. Twilley
Robert R. Twilley Louisiana State University

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