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dc.contributor.authorFonseca, Mark S.
dc.contributor.authorMalhotra, Amit
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-24T16:59:21Z
dc.date.available2021-06-24T16:59:21Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1834/30805
dc.description.abstractHurricanes can cause extensive damage to the coastline and coastal communities due to wind-generated waves and storm surge. While extensive modeling efforts have been conducted regarding storm surge, there is far less information about the effects of waves on these communities and ecosystems as storms make landfall. This report describes a preliminary use of NCCOS’ WEMo (Wave Exposure Model; Fonseca and Malhotra 2010) to compute the wind wave exposure within an area of approximately 25 miles radius from Beaufort, North Carolina for estuarine waters encompassing Bogue Sound, Back Sound and Core Sound during three hurricane landfall scenarios. The wind wave heights and energy of a site was a computation based on wind speed, direction, fetch and local bathymetry. We used our local area (Beaufort, North Carolina) as a test bed for this product because it is frequently impacted by hurricanes and we had confidence in the bathymetry data. Our test bed conditions were based on two recent Hurricanes that strongly affected this area. First, we used hurricane Isabel which made landfall near Beaufort in September 2003. Two hurricane simulations were run first by passing hurricane Isabel along its actual path (east of Beaufort) and second by passing the same storm to the west of Beaufort to show the potential effect of the reversed wind field. We then simulated impacts by a hurricane (Ophelia) with a different landfall track, which occurred in September of 2005. The simulations produced a geographic description of wave heights revealing the changing wind and wave exposure of the region as a consequence of landfall location and storm intensity. This highly conservative simulation (water levels were that of low tide) revealed that many inhabited and developed shorelines would receive wind waves for prolonged periods of time at heights far above that found during even the top few percent of non-hurricane events. The simulations also provided a sense for how rapidly conditions could transition from moderate to highly threatening; wave heights were shown to far exceed normal conditions often long before the main body of the storm arrived and importantly, at many locations that could impede and endanger late-fleeing vessels seeking safe harbor. When joined with other factors, such as storm surge and event duration, we anticipate that the WEMo forecasting tool will have significant use by local emergency agencies and the public to anticipate the relative exposure of their property arising as a function of storm location and may also be used by resource managers to examine the effects of storms in a quantitative fashion on local living marine resources.
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherNOAA/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ccfhr.noaa.gov/docs/Hurricane%20CARTERET%20CO%20Tech%20Report.pdf
dc.subject.otherEnvironment
dc.subject.otherManagement
dc.subject.otherOceanography
dc.subject.otherPlanning
dc.titleWave forecasts associated with hurricane landfalls in the vicinity of Cape Lookout, North Carolina
dc.typemonograph
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue118
dc.format.pages42
dc.publisher.placeBeaufort, NC
refterms.dateFOA2021-06-24T16:59:21Z
dc.source.legacydepositoremailmark.fonseca@noaa.gov
dc.source.legacyrecordurlhttp://aquaticcommons.org/id/eprint/14942
dc.source.legacydepositorid403
dc.source.legacylastmod2014-03-17 17:50:23
dc.source.legacyid14942
dc.source.legacyagencyUnited States National Ocean Service


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