NH52A:
Extreme Sea Levels and Coastal Flood Risk in a Changing Climate I

Session ID#: 2831

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Thomas Wahl, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States and William Sweet, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, United States
Primary Convener:  Ivan David Haigh, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Jeffrey Melby, US Army Corps of Engineers Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Thomas Wahl, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States and William Sweet, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ivan David Haigh, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4556 Sea level: variations and mean [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Virtual Option?: Yes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Welcoming Remarks
Long-term increase in New York Harbor storm tides, 1844-present (Invited) (3718)
Stefan A Talke, California Polytechnic State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, San Luis Obispo, California, United States, Philip M Orton, Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering, Union City, NJ, United States and David A Jay, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Extreme Sea Levels and Approaches to Adaptation in Germany (Invited) (4939)
Ralf Weisse1, Jens Kappenberg2 and Janina Sothmann2, (1)Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany, (2)Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
Return Period and Risk of Extreme Sea Levels under Non-Stationarity (Invited) (6406)
Jayantha Obeysekera, South Florida Water Management, West Palm Beach, FL, United States and Jose D. Salas, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Storm Surge and Tide Interaction: A Complete Paradigm (10057)
Kevin Horsburgh, Green Climate Fund, Incheon, South Korea
Climate Variability of Coastal Flooding Risk in San Francisco Bay: the Wonderful Problem (15195)
Fernando Javier Méndez Incera1, Li H Erikson2, Peter Ruggiero3, Patrick Barnard4, Paula Camus5 and Ana Cristina Rueda Zamora5, (1)Enviromental Hydraulics Institute of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, (2)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)USGS California Water Science Center San Diego, Santa Cruz, United States, (5)Universidad de Cantabria, GeoOcean, Santander, Spain
An Analysis of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones and Their Impacts on Coastal Inundation in New York and New Jersey during the Last Millennium (6807)
Andra Jenn Garner, Rowan University, Department of Environmental Science, Glassboro, NJ, United States, Michael E Mann, Penn State University, University Park, United States, Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Ning Lin, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States, Andrew Kemp, Tufts University, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Medford, United States and Benjamin Peter Horton, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Surge Driven Return Flow Results in Deposition of Coarse Grain Horizons Archiving a 4000 Year Record of Extreme Storm Events, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (7167)
Chris Maio, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Coastal Geoscience Lab, Fairbanks, United States, Jeffrey P Donnelly, WHOI, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States, Richard Sullivan, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States, Christopher R Weidman, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Waquoit, United States and Vitalii Sheremet, WHOI, Woods Hole, RI, United States
Quantifying the role of climate variability on extreme total water level impacts: An application of a full simulation model to Ocean Beach, California (26678)
Katherine Serafin1, Peter Ruggiero2, Hilary F Stockdon3, Patrick Barnard4 and Joseph Long3, (1)University of Florida, Department of Geography, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, (3)U.S Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Science Center, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, United States
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