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Description:
Author(s):
Skirving, William; Storlazzi, Curt; Smail, Emily A.
Title:
Forecasting Floods on Reef-Lined Coasts
Publication Date:
2021
Editor/Compiler:
Coley, Kira
Journal Title:
Environment Coastal & Offshore (ECO) Magazine
Page(s):
144-147
Abstract:
"Rising seas are contributing to devastating weather events, such as storm surges caused by hurricanes, threatening coastal communities and local livelihoods worldwide. Finding new ways to improve the resilience of our shoreline while decreasing risk to flooding will be critical for the continued inhabitance and sustainability of these areas. Low-lying island lined with coral reefs, in particular, are experiencing storm wave-drived flood events that strike with little to no warning With the increasing frequency and severity of these events, there is now an urgent need for a tool that can forecast the timing and severity of wave-driven flooding events along the world's coral reef-lined coasts. Now, an international team associated with the GEO Blue Planet initiative is developing a solution: WaveFoRCE. The new tool is a wave-driven flood-forecasting early-warning system (EWS) designed especially for coral reef-lined coasts. The system aims to provide all nations, and people living on a coral reef-lined coast anywhere in the world, with an up to 7.5-day forecast of storm wave-driven flood events."
Electronic Access:
NOAA Line Office:
NESDIS
NOAA Program Office:
Center for Satellie Applications and Research
Notes:
FY2021 CRCP Project ID 915; Project Title: Coral Reef Watch: Satellite- and Model-Based Products for Coral Reef Ecosystem Managers; Principal Investigator: Jacqueline De La Cour
Funding Organizations:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administation (NOAA); United States Geological Survey (USGS); Deltares
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