Storm surge
  • Physics 
                  1. Description and mathematics
                  2. a.) Exercise b.) Spreadsheet
                  3. Video recording (first half). Audio only
  • Storm surge models
                  1. Overview on storm surge models (mostly SLOSH and ADCIRC, but other relevant models documented)
                  2. Video recording. Audio only.

                 Optional material

                 3. Coastal and Estuarine Storm Tide (CEST) model
                 4. TAOS model (may be obsolete)
                 5. Delft3D model (long technical document) Example of surge modeling for Vietnam
                 6. FVCOM model (website) Paper on modeling surge in Tampa Bay
                 7. GLOSSIS 
                 8. HYFLUX2
                 9. The Fully Adaptive Storm Tide (FAST) model 
               10. The Semi-implicit Eulerian Lagrangian Finite Element (SELFE) model

  • Dr. Fitz's 1D storm surge model
                 1. Written in python by Yee Lau: a. instructions b. snapshot example for running wind code c. snapshot example for running model  d. code to generate wind input e. code to run model (advanced material, not required for class)
                 2. zipfile of all code
                 3. FORTRAN version of one-dimensional model also available by request
  • Surge products
                 1. NHC storm surge watches and warnings
                 2. NHC storm surge inundation map
                 3. NHC Probabilistic Surge (PSURGE)
                 4. LSU's CERA product
  • Extratropical storm surge products
                 1. ESTOFS
                 2. ETSS
  • Storm surge database
                1. SURGEDAT
                2. Western Carolina website
                3. USGS
                4. Dr. Fitz's dataset and historical reports (available upon request)
  • Using surge models for mitigation and insurance; return level theory (optional reading)
                1. Joint Probability methods
                2. a. Example of joint probability to rebuilding the Louisiana levee and protection system after Katrina b. Recorded version