Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2018

DOI

10.9753/icce.v36.currents.52

Publication Title

Coastal Engineering Proceedings

Volume

1

Issue

36

Pages

currents.52

Conference Name

Proceedings of 36th Conference on Coastal Engineering, 30 July-3 August 2018, Baltimore, Maryland

Abstract

The coastal regions in the U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico are under the risk of storm surge and precipitation-driven flooding. The adverse impacts of climate change including sea level rise (SLR), potential increase in intensity and frequency of extreme storms, and increase in precipitation intensity increases the vulnerability of coastal communities to flooding. The common practice for flood hazard assessment in urban coastal areas can result in some errors as the effect of storm surge and overland flow are not considered simultaneously. In this study, we combine the results of two hydrodynamic models, one for overland flow and the other for storm surge inundation, to develop an improved approach for flood hazard assessment.

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Authors retain copyright and grant the Proceedings right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Proceedings.

Original Publication Citation

Tahvildari, N., Sahu, A., Shen, Y., Morsy, M., & Goodall, J. (2018). Combined effect of storm surge and overland flow on flooding in a coastal urban area. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(36), currents.52. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36.currents.52

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