Abstract
Reliable and robust methods of extreme value-based hurricane surge prediction, such as the joint probability method (JPM), are critical in the coastal engineering profession. The JPM has become the preferred surge hazard assessment method in the USA; however, it has a high computational cost: One location can require hundreds of simulated storms and more than ten thousand computational hours to complete. Optimal sampling methods that use physics-based surge response functions (SRFs) can reduce the required number of simulations. This study extends the development of SRFs to bay interior locations at Panama City, Florida. Mean SRF root-mean-square errors for open coast and bay interior locations were 0.34 and 0.37 m, respectively, comparable with ADCIRC errors. Average uncertainty increases from open coast, and bay SRFs were 10 and 12 %, respectively. Long-term climate trends, such as rising sea levels, introduce nonstationarity into the simulated and historical surge datasets. A common approach to estimating total flood elevations is to take the sum of projected sea-level rise (SLR) and present day surge (static approach); however, this does not account for dynamic SLR effects on surge generation. This study demonstrates that SLR has a significant dynamic effect on surge in the Panama City area, and that total flood elevations, with respect to changes in SLR, are poorly characterized as static increases. A simple adjustment relating total flood elevation to present day conditions is proposed. Uncertainty contributions from these SLR adjustments are shown to be reasonable for surge hazard assessments.
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Abbreviations
- EVA:
-
Extreme value analysis
- JPM:
-
Joint probability method
- OS:
-
Optimal sampling
- JPM-OS:
-
Joint probability method with optimal sampling
- SRF:
-
Surge response function
- SLR:
-
Sea-level rise
- MSL:
-
Mean sea level
- SST:
-
Sea surface temperature
- IPCC:
-
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- NOAA:
-
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- LCLU:
-
Land cover-land use
- PDF:
-
Probability density function
- RMS:
-
Root-mean-square
- a 1, a 2 :
-
Gumbel coefficients
- Z :
-
Total maximum flood elevation
- T Z :
-
Total maximum flood elevation return period
- x :
-
Location of interest
- ϕ :
-
SRF model term
- c p :
-
Hurricane central pressure
- R p :
-
Hurricane radius of maximum winds
- v f :
-
Hurricane forward velocity
- θ :
-
Hurricane track angle
- x 0 :
-
Hurricane landfall position
- \(x^{{\prime }}\) :
-
Dimensionless alongshore parameter
- \(\zeta^{{\prime }}\) :
-
Dimensionless surge parameter
- ζ :
-
Peak surge elevation
- λ(x 0):
-
Ratio between relative maximum peak surge location and R p
- c :
-
Dimensionless regional scaling constant
- L 30 :
-
Cross-shore distance from shoreline to 30-m bathymetric contour, at x 0
- L 30-ref :
-
Threshold value of L 30
- R thres :
-
Threshold value of R p
- a 1, a 2, b 1, b 2 :
-
Dimensionless scaling coefficients
- m 2, α, β :
-
Dimensionless scaling coefficients
- ∆p :
-
Ambient pressure and hurricane central pressure difference
- ∆p max :
-
Maximum theoretical hurricane intensity (Tonkin et al. 2000)
- [R p/L 30]ref :
-
Maximum value of R p/L 30
- γ 0 :
-
Reference specific weight of water
- ɛ z :
-
Epistemic uncertainty
- ɛ tide :
-
Tide model uncertainty
- ɛ model :
-
Hydrodynamic and wind model uncertainty
- ɛ waves :
-
Wave model uncertainty
- ɛ wind :
-
Wind model uncertainty
- ɛ residual :
-
Residual uncertainty
- ɛ SRF :
-
SRF uncertainty
- ɛ SRF :
-
SLR model uncertainty
- μ :
-
Mean of normal distribution
- σ 2 :
-
Variance of normal distribution
- Z SLR :
-
Total flood elevation at projected SLR, relative to present day MSL
- Z 0 :
-
Present day total flood elevation
- k, l :
-
Location-dependent fit coefficients
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This material is based on the work supported by the National Sea Grant College Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Grant No. NA10OAR4170099. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of this organization. The STOKES ARCC (Advanced Research Computing Center) at the University of Central Florida provided computational resources for storm surge simulations (System. Administrators: P. Wiegand and G. Martin). The authors wish to thank Dr. James, M. Kaihatu, and Patrick W. McLaughlin, for their contributions to this work.
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The joint probability density function, f, in Eq. 1 for the JPM-OS is defined as:
where f = probability density functions; a 1, a 2 = Gumbel coefficients; μ = mean of normal distribution; σ 2 = variance of normal distribution; () indicates the parameter is a function of the variable in parentheses.
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Taylor, N.R., Irish, J.L., Udoh, I.E. et al. Development and uncertainty quantification of hurricane surge response functions for hazard assessment in coastal bays. Nat Hazards 77, 1103–1123 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-015-1646-5
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