The Evolution and Outcomes of a Collaborative Testbed for Predicting Coastal Threats

Nichols, C. Reid; Wright, L. D.

doi:10.3390/jmse8080612

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“…However, for anticipating potential, but not impending, future scenarios, more advanced and time-consuming models that utilize HPC resources are the current state of the art. Some of the more widely used models are described in [29,[31][32][33]. Storm surge and wave modeling, together with tidal modeling, are essential for coastal erosion/deposition and coastal inundation estimates.…”

Section: Coastal Inundation and Climate Changementioning

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Coastal Morphodynamics and Climate Change: A Review of Recent Advances

Wright,

Thom

2023

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The shape of the coast and the processes that mold it change together as a complex system. There is constant feedback among the multiple components of the system, and when climate changes, all facets of the system change. Abrupt shifts to different states can also take place when certain tipping points are crossed. The coupling of rapid warming in the Arctic with melting sea ice is one example of positive feedback. Climate changes, particularly rising sea temperatures, are causing an increasing frequency of tropical storms and “compound events” such as storm surges combined with torrential rains. These events are superimposed on progressive rises in relative sea level and are anticipated to push many coastal morphodynamic systems to tipping points beyond which return to preexisting conditions is unlikely. Complex systems modeling results and long-term sets of observations from diverse cases help to anticipate future coastal threats. Innovative engineering solutions are needed to adapt to changes in coastal landscapes and environmental risks. New understandings of cascading climate-change-related physical, ecological, socioeconomic effects, and multi-faceted morphodynamic systems are continually contributing to the imperative search for resilience. Recent contributions, summarized here, are based on theory, observations, numerically modeled results, regional case studies, and global projections.

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Section: Coastal Inundation and Climate Changementioning

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Coastal Morphodynamics and Climate Change: A Review of Recent Advances

Wright,

Thom

2023

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“…For the cases where flooding is the result of storm surge and/or waves alone, there are numerous reliable and well-tested predictive models of varying degrees of sophistication to choose from depending on local and regional bathymetry and shoreline complexity [31,32]. Storm surge models in use today include two-dimensional (e.g., vertically averaged properties across a spatial domain) and three-dimensional models using both structured and unstructured (irregular) grids.…”

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“…Levees currently protect areas shown in black. This public domain image from NOAA was also presented in[31,86].…”

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Anticipating and Adapting to the Future Impacts of Climate Change on the Health, Security and Welfare of Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Communities in Southeastern USA

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Low elevation coastal zones (LECZ) are extensive throughout the southeastern United States. LECZ communities are threatened by inundation from sea level rise, storm surge, wetland degradation, land subsidence, and hydrological flooding. Communication among scientists, stakeholders, policy makers and minority and poor residents must improve. We must predict processes spanning the ecological, physical, social, and health sciences. Communities need to address linkages of (1) human and socioeconomic vulnerabilities; (2) public health and safety; (3) economic concerns; (4) land loss; (5) wetland threats; and (6) coastal inundation. Essential capabilities must include a network to assemble and distribute data and model code to assess risk and its causes, support adaptive management, and improve the resiliency of communities. Better communication of information and understanding among residents and officials is essential. Here we review recent background literature on these matters and offer recommendations for integrating natural and social sciences. We advocate for a cyber-network of scientists, modelers, engineers, educators, and stakeholders from academia, federal state and local agencies, non-governmental organizations, residents, and the private sector. Our vision is to enhance future resilience of LECZ communities by offering approaches to mitigate hazards to human health, safety and welfare and reduce impacts to coastal residents and industries.

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“…The study of these problems has significant impacts on advances in sciences, engineering, and resilient coastal communities. Towards the study, various programs have been established, such as Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Program (SCOOP), and the NOAA Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed program [4].…”

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Modeling Multiscale and Multiphysics Coastal Ocean Processes: A Discussion on Necessity, Status, and Advances

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Wright

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Coastal ocean flows are interconnected by a complex suite of processes. Examples are inlet jets, river mouth effluents, ocean currents, surface gravity waves, internal waves, wave overtopping, and wave slamming on coastal structures. It has become necessary to simulate such oceanographic phenomena directly and simultaneously in many disciplines, including coastal engineering, environmental science, and marine science. Oceanographic processes exhibit distinct behaviors at specific temporal and spatial scales, and they are multiscale, multiphysics in nature; these processes are described by different sets of governing equations and are often modeled individually. In order to draw the attention of the scientific community and promote their simulations, a Special Issue of the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering entitled “Multiscale, Multiphysics Modelling of Coastal Ocean Processes: Paradigms and Approaches” was published. The papers collected in this issue cover physical phenomena, such as wind-driven flows, coastal flooding, turbidity currents, and modeling techniques such as model comparison, model coupling, parallel computation, and domain decomposition. This article outlines the needs for modeling of coastal ocean flows involving multiple physical processes at different scales, and it discusses the implications of the collected papers. Additionally, it reviews the current status and offers a roadmap with numerical methods, data collection, and artificial intelligence as future endeavors.

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The Evolution and Outcomes of a Collaborative Testbed for Predicting Coastal Threats

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

Coastal Morphodynamics and Climate Change: A Review of Recent Advances

Coastal Morphodynamics and Climate Change: A Review of Recent Advances

Anticipating and Adapting to the Future Impacts of Climate Change on the Health, Security and Welfare of Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Communities in Southeastern USA

Modeling Multiscale and Multiphysics Coastal Ocean Processes: A Discussion on Necessity, Status, and Advances

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