NH31B:
Further Research into the Cause and Impacts of the 2017 Hurricanes, with Applications of Flood Warning and Inundation Mapping During the Storms Posters


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Session ID#: 57260

Session Description:
The devastation of many hurricanes taking place in 2017 will be remembered by many people for a long time. This session seeks a wide breadth of contributions focusing on the events of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, including crowd-sourced data and social media in disaster response; policy implications; high resolution remote sensing; flood inundation using 1-D and 2-D modeling approaches with improved understanding of current modeling processes and their extremes (especially those with high-impacts on society); impacts on the environment and human health; changing coastal landscapes; oceanographic, atmospheric, and climatic factors contributing to the storm; data access and assimilation; HPC and cloud computing for real-time analysis. Studies involving flood mitigation and flood policies from the local- to regional-scale are invited given the increasing need for protection from such events. This session encourages contributions from academic, governmental and/or private sectors that have built and deployed flood warning systems with strong communication features.
Primary Convener:  Courtney M Thompson, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Conveners:  Nick Z. Fang, University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, United States, Philip B Bedient, Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States and Jeffrey A Nittrouer, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nick Z. Fang, University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, United States
Chairs:  Nick Z. Fang, University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, United States and Courtney M Thompson, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Courtney M Thompson, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Co-Organized with:
Natural Hazards, and Earth and Space Science Informatics

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
Index Terms:

1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
1932 High-performance computing [INFORMATICS]
4303 Hydrological [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4342 Emergency management [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Quantification of Uncertainty in Probabilistic Storm Surge Models (468205)
Victor M. Gonzalez, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, United States and Norberto Carlos Nadal Caraballo, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States
Impact of Hurricane Harvey on the off-shore Currents of Galveston Bay (370596)
Jacinta Clay, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Jiabi Du, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Physical Sciences, gloucester point, VA, United States and Kyeong Park, University of South Alabama, Mobile, United States
The Hurricane-Driven Export of Mid-Atlantic Bight Shelf Waters Near Cape Hatteras in September 2017 (401492)
Devon Gaynes, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Robert E Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Magdalena Andres, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Woods Hole, United States
The Effect of Hurricane Irma Storm Surge on the Freshwater Lens in Big Pine Key, Florida using Electrical Resistivity Tomography (436952)
Michael E Eyob Kiflai1, Dean Whitman2, Danielle E Ogurcak3 and Mike Ross1, (1)Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, FL, United States, (2)Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, United States, (3)Florida International University, Institute of Water and Environment, Miami, FL, United States
Measuring Hydrodynamic Drivers and Coastal Response of Hurricane Irma on the Florida Gulf Coast (445718)
Jenna A Brown, U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St Petersburg, United States, Christine Kranenburg, USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St Petersburg, FL, United States and Joseph W Long, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Physics and Physical Oceanography, Wilmington, United States
Mapping Economic Impact of Major Hurricanes in 2014-2018: Visualization of VIIRS DNB and LEHD Data. (461208)
Dana Kozhakhmetova1, Joanna Valle Luna2, Gordon Hanson1, Ran Goldblatt3, Madeline Jones4 and Arman c Khachiyan5, (1)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (3)New Light Technologies / FEMA (CTR), Washington, DC, United States, (4)New Light Technologies, Inc./Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Washington D.C., DC, United States, (5)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Initial deposition and offshore migration of the Hurricane Harvey Flood Layer across the Brazos River subaqueous delta and shelf-Gulf of Mexico-the largest recorded discharge event for the Brazos River (468158)
Christena Elizabeth Hoelscher, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Timothy Michael Dellapenna, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Galveston, United States, James H Churchill, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Aleck Zhaohui Wang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Eyal Wurgaft, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States
Comparison of 1D, 2D, and 1D/2D Approaches for Flood Inundation Modeling in an Urban Watershed (344991)
Andrew Juan, Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States and Philip B Bedient, Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
Application of Dry Reservoir Simulations in a 2D Hydraulic Model (HEC-RAS) (348660)
Matthew Garcia1, Andrew Juan2 and Philip B Bedient2, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
Determination and Assessment of Rainfall Thresholds for Flash Flood Warning in Mountainous Catchments, Southern China based on CNFF-HMS (363264)
Xiaoyan Zhai1, Xiaoyan Zhai1, Ronghua Liu Dr.1 and Yongyong Zhang2, (1)China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Validation of a Near-Real Time Simulation of Hurricane Harvey Using a Continental-Scale 2D Hydrodynamic Model (391633)
Oliver Wing1, Christopher Charles Sampson2, Niall Quinn2, Andy Smith2, Paul D Bates3 and Jeffrey C Neal4, (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (2)Fathom, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)University of Bristol, School Of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom
Validation of National Water Model – Height Above Nearest Drainage Flood Maps during Hurricane Harvey (410748)
Xing Zheng, Verisk Analytics, Research, Boston, United States, Jeff Zheng, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, David Maidment, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Research in Water Resources, Austin, United States and Paola Passalacqua, The University of Texas at Austin, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, United States
Advanced Flood Warning System & Its Performance during Hurricane Harvey (410757)
Dongfeng Li1, Nick Z. Fang2, Jiaqi Zhang2 and Philip B Bedient3, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, United States, (3)Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
Development and Evaluation of Flood Mitigation Strategies for Greens Bayou in Houston – Resilience Vs. Resistance Approach (456403)
Meera Gadit1, Avantika Gori2, Andrew Juan2 and Philip B Bedient2, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
Developing Real-Time Flood Inundation Mapping Tool for Harris County-Houston, TX (461528)
Abebe S Gebregiorgis1, Todd S Ward1 and Ataul Hannan2, (1)Harris County Flood Control District, Risk Mitigation Department, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Harris County Flood Control District, Planning Division, Houston, TX, United States
A Nonstationary Hidden Markov Model with Generalized Extreme Value Distributions to Model Streamflow Extremes (458153)
Balaji Rajagopalan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Peter Van Dusen, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Cameron Bracken, Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR, United States
Simplified Conversion of Hydrologic Models for Real-time Inundation Mapping in Harris County, TX during Hurricane Harvey (465119)
Christina Hughes, Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc., Water Resources Engineering, Houston, DC, United States, Andy Yung, Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc., Water Resources Engineering, Houston, TX, United States and Nick Z. Fang, University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, United States
Contrasting uncertainties of two drought indices on extreme drought in Korea (428742)
Dae-Geun Yu, Kongju National University, Atmospheric Science, Gongju, South Korea, Maeng-Ki Kim, Kongju National University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Gongju, South Korea and Sol-Hyeon Yu, Kongju National University, Gongju, South Korea

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