Predictive Numerical Simulations for Deadly High Waves Caused by Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones.
Abstract
In recent times, coastal damage has been on the increase due to rising sea levels as a result of global warming and the increasing frequency of high waves as a result of climate change. Especially in 2018, Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones contributed to cause deadly high swells and waves directly invading the coastline propagate more energy onto the shoreline than preexisting waves, causing physical damages as well as human casualties. This research aims to successfully predict high waves by using real time weather data in its simulations to detect potential danger in a user's location, as part of the larger research for the development of a high wave alarm system technology. In order to reproduce the waves during a high wave invasion, past weather forecast data of Typhoon Jebi (formed on August 26, 2018 and dissipated on September 9th, 2018) has been used as the input data of SWAN, a wave transformation model.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMNH21D3530K
- Keywords:
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- 4313 Extreme events;
- NATURAL HAZARDS