An Overview of ERDC's Coastal Storm Modeling System as Applied to the South Atlantic Coast Study: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Abstract
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center's Coastal Storm Modeling System (CSTORM-MS) is a comprehensive methodology for applying an integrated system of high fidelity numerical models to simulate coastal storms in order to accurately assess flood risk to coastal communities. The CSTORM-MS makes use of an integrated suite of nonlinear physics-based models, some of which are dynamically two way coupled to more accurate represent coastal systems in an effort to support a wide range of coastal engineering needs for simulating tropical and extratropical storm wind, wave and water levels. The CSTORM-MS has been applied to several large-scale USACE projects including the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (2015), the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Study (2018) and now the South Atlantic Coast Study. This presentation describes the current state of practice capabilities of the CSTORM-MS and its accompanying production system (CSTORM-PS) for efficiently executing modeling scenarios and storing data as applied for the South Atlantic Coast Study with an emphasis given to the approach and the results from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In particular modeling results from various sea level rise scenarios will be discussed and compared. Rounding out the presentation will be a discussion on how the modeling results and computed statistical annual exceedance probabilities are stored in the Coastal Hazards System, which allows for broad access to the data and reuse for many purposes in the engineering and planning communities.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMGC44A..04M
- Keywords:
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- 3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES;
- 1807 Climate impacts;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 4306 Multihazards;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 4217 Coastal processes;
- OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL