Papers about or using UMWM.
Detelich, C. E., U. G. Schneck, A. G. Hayes, M. Curcic, R. V. Palermo, A. D. Ashton, J. T. Perron, J. M. Lora, and J. Steckloff, 2026: Modeling the seasonality of wind-driven hydrocarbon waves in Titan’s polar lakes, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 131(5), e2026JE009693, doi:10.1029/2026JE009693. Link
Schneck, U. G., C. E. Detelich, M. Curcic, A. D. Ashton, A. G. Hayes, and J. T. Perron, 2026: Modeling wind-driven waves on other planets: Applications to Mars, Titan, and exoplanets, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 131(4), e2025JE009490, doi:10.1029/2025JE009490. Link
Barr, B. W. and S. S. Chen, 2025: Impacts of seastate-dependent sea spray heat fluxes on tropical cyclone structure and intensity in fully coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean model simulations, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 17(7), e2024MS004550, doi:10.1029/2024MS004550. Link
Barr, B. W., S. S. Chen, and C. W. Fairall, 2023: Sea-state-dependent sea spray and air-sea heat fluxes in tropical cyclones: A new parameterization for fully coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean models, J. Atmos. Sci., 80(4), 933-960, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-22-0126.1. Link
Haza A. C., N. Paldor, T. M. Özgökmen, M. Curcic, S. S. Chen, and G. Jacobs, 2019: Wind-based estimations of ocean surface currents from massive clusters of drifters in the Gulf of Mexico, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 124, doi:10.1029/2018JC014813. PDF.
Li, G., M. Curcic, M. Iskandarani, S. S. Chen, and O. M. Knio, 2019: Uncertainty propagation in coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean system: A study of Hurricane Earl (2010), Mon. Wea. Rev., 147, 221-245, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-17-0371.1. PDF
Haza, A., E. D’Asaro, H. Cheng, S. S. Chen, M. Curcic, C. Guigand, H. S. Huntley, G. Jacobs, G. Novelli, T. M. Özgökmen, A. C. Poje, E. Ryan, and A. Scherbina, 2018: Drogue-loss detection for surface drifters during the Lagrangian Submesoscale Experiment (LASER), J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 35(4), 705-725, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0143.1. PDF
Dietrich, J. C., A. Muhammad, M. Curcic, A. Fathi, C. N. Dawson, S. S. Chen, and R. A. Luettich Jr., 2018: Sensitivity of storm surge predictions to atmospheric forcing during Hurricane Isaac, J. Waterway, Port, Coastal, Ocean Eng., 144(1): 04017035. PDF
Kim, E., M. Lance, M. Curcic, S. S. Chen, C. Phillips, and P. Veers, 2016: On the use of coupled wind, wave, and current fields in the simulation of loads on bottom-supported offshore wind turbines during hurricanes, Technical Report NREL/TP–5000-65283, National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO, United States, doi:10.2172/1266702. Link
Judt, F., S. S. Chen, and M. Curcic, 2016: Atmospheric forcing of the upper ocean transport in the Gulf of Mexico: From seasonal to diurnal scales, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121, 4416-4433, doi:10.1002/2015JC011555. PDF
Curcic, M., S. S. Chen, and T. M. Ozgökmen, 2016: Hurricane-induced ocean waves and Stokes drift and their impacts on surface transport and dispersion in the Gulf of Mexico, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 2773–2781, doi:10.1002/2015GL067619. PDF
Zhu, P., Y. Wang, S. S. Chen, M. Curcic, and C. Gao, 2016: Impact of storm-induced cooling of sea surface temperature on large turbulent eddies and vertical turbulent transport in the atmospheric boundary layer of Hurricane Isaac, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121, 861–876, doi:10.1002/2015JC011320. PDF
Chen, S. S. and M. Curcic, 2016: Ocean surface waves in Hurricane Ike (2008) and Superstorm Sandy (2012): Coupled modeling and observations, Oce. Mod., 103, 161-176. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2015.08.005. PDF
Curcic, M., 2015: Explicit air-sea momentum exchange in coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean modeling of tropical cyclones, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Miami. Link
Banfield, D., M. A. Donelan, and L. Cavaleri, 2015: Winds, waves and shorelines from ancient martian seas, Icarus, 250, 368-383, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.12.001. Link
Reichl, B. G., T. Hara, and I. Ginis, 2014: Sea state dependence of the wind stress over the ocean under hurricane winds, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119, 30-51, doi:10.1002/2013JC009289. Link
Curcic M., E. Kim, L. Manuel, S. S. Chen, M. A. Donelan, J. Michalakes, 2013: Coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean modeling to characterize hurricane load cases for offshore wind turbines, 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 2013, Grapevine TX, doi:10.2514/6.2013-198. PDF
Donelan, M. A., M. Curcic, S. S. Chen, and A. K. Magnusson, 2012: Modeling waves and wind stress, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 117, C00J23, doi:10.1029/2011JC007787. PDF