Analysis of the coastal Mississippi storm surge hazard

Following the extreme flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) commissioned a study to update the Mississippi coastal flood hazard maps. The project included development and application of new methods incorporating the most recent advances in numerical mod...

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Published in:Ocean engineering 2010, Vol.37 (1), p.82-90
Main Authors: Niedoroda, A.W., Resio, D.T., Toro, G.R., Divoky, D., Das, H.S., Reed, C.W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climatology
Coastal
Coastal flood hazard
Computational fluid dynamics
Floods
Hazards
Hurricane
Hurricane storm surge
Katrina
Marine
Mathematical models
Storms
Surge modeling
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Summary:Following the extreme flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) commissioned a study to update the Mississippi coastal flood hazard maps. The project included development and application of new methods incorporating the most recent advances in numerical modeling of storms and coastal hydrodynamics, analysis of the storm climatology, and flood hazard evaluation. This paper discusses the methods that were used and how they were applied to the coast of the State of Mississippi.
ISSN:0029-8018
1873-5258
DOI:10.1016/j.oceaneng.2009.08.019