Modeling and Planning for Storm Surge (Panel)

ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Traci Birch (Creator)

John Dorman (Creator)

Jessica Losego (Creator)

Institution

East Carolina University (ECU )

Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/

Abstract: Jessica Losego discussed the CERA (Coastal Emergency Risk Assessment)-Atlantic portal that is \n\npart of the DHS Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence housed at UNC Chapel Hill. She showed \n\nexamples of the five-day forecasts that are generated based on ADCIRC coastal circulation and \n\nstorm surge models that produce deterministic wave and surge forecasts. The layers of the map \n\ninclude storm track, water height, waves, wind speed and gauge stations located on a Google \n\nmap. The format allows a user to click on any part of the map and find a legend with corresponding colors that indicate inundation and how a particular area will be affected. While this website \n\nhas been available for several years, recent improvements have been made in response to feedback from emergency managers. They found that emergency managers need information 72 \n\nhours before landfall and they need a best guess for decision-making. The onset of tropical force \n\nwind is important to emergency managers and although there are many ways to get the hurricane \n\ntrack, it is hard to get information about river flooding and connect that to surge. New changes include color scale changes and more intuitive page design...

Additional Information

Publication

Other

Language: English

Date: 2023

Subjects

Hurricanes;NCEM;Emergency management;Emergency disaster

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