CP44E:
Extreme Sea Levels and Coastal Flood Risk III Posters
CP44E:
Extreme Sea Levels and Coastal Flood Risk III Posters
Extreme Sea Levels and Coastal Flood Risk III Posters
Session ID#: 85166
Session Description:
Extreme sea levels emerge as a combination of regional mean sea level, astronomic tides, storm surges, a dynamic wave component, and, in deltas and estuaries, river discharge. Inundation of coastal areas arises from the superposition of these components and can lead to moderate (but frequent) impacts related to tidal flooding, or devastating social, economic, and environmental consequences due to rare extreme events. The 2017 and 2018 hurricane seasons in the North Atlantic were only the latest reminders of the vulnerability of low-lying densely populated and highly developed coastlines. In order to plan effective adaptation to coastal flooding hazards it is essential to improve the understanding of the links between different sea level components, and how they are modulated by climate change and variability, individually and in combination. This session seeks contributions from studies that have: (i) examined changes in any of the sea level components outlined above and their links to climate change and variability (past and future), (ii) undertaken statistical or process-based model analyses of extreme sea levels or its individual components, (iii) assessed how changes in sea level modulate coastal flood risk, (iv) or taken an integrated approach toward flood hazard and vulnerability evaluation of complex coastal systems.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- OM - Ocean Modeling
- PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
- PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
Index Terms:
1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4564 Tsunamis and storm surges [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair: Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States
Co-chairs: Sönke Dangendorf, Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science & Engineering, New Orleans, United States; University of Siegen, Research Institute for Water and Environment, Siegen, Germany, William Sweet, NOAA/NOS, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Katherine Serafin, University of Florida, Geography, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Primary Liaison: Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States
Moderators: Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States and Sönke Dangendorf, Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science & Engineering, New Orleans, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States and Sönke Dangendorf, Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science & Engineering, New Orleans, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
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