Storm surge is dependent on wind direction, with maximum surge heights occurring when strong winds blow onshore. It is less obvious what happens when a port city is situated at the end of a long narrow gulf, like Venice at the northwestern end of the Adriatic Sea. Does the narrow marine approach to the port city limit the dangerous wind direction to a span of only a few degrees? This modeling s...

Global warming and its accompanying sea level rise will be serious issues in the future. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , a global average sea level rise of 9cm to 88cm is projected for 1990 to 2100 and a steady increase of sea level for all of the scenarios considered is expected. In the coast regions, coast disasters caused by storm surge coupled with sea le...

INTRODUCTION: Flooding resulting from hurricanes and other extreme storm events is a prominent risk along the coasts. These coastal areas are typically of low elevation and relief, making land and infrastructure highly susceptible to inundation by storm surge and waves. The severity of this threat is exacerbated by sea level rise and a possible increase in storm frequency and strength due to cl...

Sustainable land-use planning requires decision makers to balance community growth with resilience to natural hazards. This balance is especially difficult in many coastal communities where planners must grapple with significant growth projections, the persistent threat of extreme events (e.g., hurricanes), and climate-change-driven sea level rise that not only presents a chronic hazard but als...

East China Sea (ECS) Storm Surge Modeling System (ESSMS) is developed based on Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). Case simulation is performed on the Typhoon Soulik, which landed on the coastal region of Fujian Province, China, at 6 pm of July 13, 2013. Modeling results show that the maximum tide level happened at 6 pm, which was also the landing time of Soulik. This accordance may lead to ...

[1] We apply the Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model to simulate the Hurricane Ike storm surge using two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) formulations. The high resolution, unstructured grid extends over the Gulf of Mexico with open boundaries in the Straits of Florida and the Yucatan Channel. With the same wind and pressure forcing, the bottom drag coefficients for the baseline 2-D ...

The various forces which affect the height of the sea' and the response of the sea to these forces are reviewed. An attempt to clarify the interactions among the astronomical, climatological, and meteorological forces involved, reveals that the response to any given force varies from one part of the sea to another, and that a complete separation of the effects produced by the various forces is ...

Storm surge resulting from mid-latitude weather systems have the potential to cause considerable damage and fatalities as a result of coastal flooding (Lavery and Donovan, 2005; Lescrauwaet et al., 2006; Jonkman and Vrijling, 2008). The real-time, accurate prediction of storm surge is of primary importance in flood forecasting and warning systems. Whilst existing deterministic, hydrodynamic for...

REESE, C.A.; STRANGE, T.P.; LYNCH, W.D., and LIU, K.B., 2008. Geologic evidence of Hurricane Katrina recovered from the Pearl River Marsh, MS/LA. Journal of Coastal Research, 24(6), 1601–1607. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Hurricane Katrina made its final landfall on August 29, 2005, as a category three storm, at the mouth of the Pearl River on the Mississippi/Louisiana border. Bet...