Session: Storm and inundation (surge/flooding)—Part I (93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Thursday, 10 January 2013: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM

Room 18B (Austin Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Cochairs:

Jesse Feyen, NOAA, National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD and Andre J. van der Westhuysen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD

Papers:

8:30 AM

7.1

SURA-IOOS Testbed for the Evaluation of Coupled Wave, Storm Surge and Inundation Models

Rick Luettich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC; and R. Beardsley, C. Chen, Q. Xu, H. Wang, Y. C. Teng, D. Forrest, R. H. Weisberg, L. Zheng, Y. Huang, J. Westerink, P. C. Kerr, A. Donahue, A. T. Haase, J. Feyen, J. Rhome, G. Crane, E. Smith, and B. Baltes

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

7.2

Whitepaper on the establishment of an islands wave, surge and hydrologic testbed based on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Joannes Westerink, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and A. J. van der Westhuysen, J. Smith, J. Feyen, J. Gonzalez, A. Mercado, J. Morell, A. B. Kennedy, M. Canals, S. Boc, S. Stripling, C. Anselmi, E. Rodriguez, E. Diaz, P. Diaz, and B. Baltes

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (458.8 kB)

9:00 AM

7.3

Using Probabilistic SLOSH Output to Improve Storm Surge Forecasting

Erik R. Nielsen, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Rhome

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

7.4

Assessment of CI-FLOW and remote sensing-derived flood depths during Hurricane Irene

Nicole C. Grams, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Yuan, Y. Hong, J. J. Gourley, and K. M. Dresback

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM