NH42A:
Further Research into the Cause and Impacts of the 2017 Hurricanes with Applications of Flood Warning and Inundation Mapping During the Storms


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Session ID#: 62851

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:  Courtney M Thompson, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Nick Z. Fang, University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, 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:

Regional Harvey flood analysis and mitigation planning for the Greater Houston area (449227)
Philip B Bedient1, Andrew Juan1, Avantika Gori1 and Larry Dunbar2, (1)Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Understanding the Impacts of Human and Environmental Change on Catchment Response during Hurricane Harvey (Invited) (351207)
Antonia Sebastian1, Avantika Gori1 and Benjamin J Bass2, (1)Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Simulating coastal evolution from decades to millennia (Invited) (351815)
Giulio Mariotti, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Science, Baton Rouge, United States
Error characterization in spatial-decomposition-based response functions for storm surge hazard assessment (Invited) (383801)
Jennifer L Irish, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Center for Coastal Studies, Blacksburg, United States, Donald Resio, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, United States, Taylor Asher, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Yi Liu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Forecasting and Observing Coastal Erosion Hazards during Hurricane Irma (438305)
Kara S Doran1, Justin J Birchler1, Joseph Long2 and Nathaniel G Plant2, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States
How much sediment was delivered to Galveston Bay from Hurricane Harvey, where did it come from and how contaminated was it? (464874)
Timothy Michael Dellapenna1, Mohammad E Al Mukaimi2, Mason Bell3 and Victoria Bartlett3, (1)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Galveston, United States, (2)University of Kuwait, Department of Marine Science, Kuwait City, Kuwait, (3)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Sciences, Galveston, TX, United States
Evaluation of Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) and Stage IV Gauge-adjusted Quantitative Precipitation Estimate (QPE) During Hurricane Harvey (384696)
Shang Gao1, Jiaqi Zhang2, Dongfeng Li1, Han Jiang3 and Nick Z. Fang2, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, United States, (3)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
Disturbance and Recovery of the Microbial Communities in Galveston Bay Following Hurricane Harvey and Flooding of the Houston Area (438131)
Jessica Labonté1, Jordan R. Walker1, Samantha Setta1, Jamie L Steichen1, Karl Kaiser2, David Hala1 and Antonietta Quigg3, (1)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Biology, Galveston, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Science, Galveston, TX, United States, (3)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Biology, Galveston, United States

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