Data-Driven Models of Winds, Waves and Ocean Currents for Water Sports
Grant Data
Project Title
Data-Driven Models of Winds, Waves and Ocean Currents for Water Sports
Principal Investigator
Professor Liu, Chun Ho
(Principal Investigator (PI))
Co-Investigator(s)
Professor Chow Kwok Wing
(Co-principal investigator)
Duration
30
Start Date
2023-02-01
Conference Title
Data-Driven Models of Winds, Waves and Ocean Currents for Water Sports
Keywords
Data-Driven, Models of Winds, Waves, Ocean Currents, Water Sports
Discipline
Others - Mechanical, Production and Industrial Engineering
Panel
Engineering (E)
HKU Project Code
2299101455
Grant Type
Sports Science and Research Funding Scheme
Funding Year
2022
Status
On-going
Objectives
1. Scrutinizing the characteristics of the wind/current fields of specific sites (speeds, directions, and turbulence levels).2. Interpolating the large-scale observational data to refine the spatiotemporal resolution.3. Deploying the software sets SWAN, Delft3D and COAWST to compute wind-ocean current interaction, thus generating information for waves and currents to help in navigating wind surfing equipment.4. Employing concepts from artificial intelligence (AI) and/or machine learning (ML) to develop models for quick prediction before competitions.5. Performing wind measurements using atmospheric LIDAR (laser imaging, detection, and ranging) - in the laboratory, training ground in Hong Kong and finally event sites at the Asian and Olympiad Games.