Hydrologic Profiles and Geospatial Trend Analysis Evaluating Recurrent Flooding at Coastal U.S. Air Force Installations

Abstract

Military installations are exposed to numerous threats, including a changing climate and the risk of recurrent flooding. The four components of recurrent flooding are sea-level rise, tidal fluctuations, storm surges, and precipitation. This research analyzed 40 years of historical precipitation and tidal data at 17 coastal U.S. Air Force installations using indicators of both peak and threshold exceedances to identify long-term temporal trends in the hydrologic components that make up recurrent flood risk, establishing an installations hydrologic profile which can be used to better inform decision makers when evaluating portfolio-wide adaptation strategies and prioritization of long-term infrastructure investments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1174072

Entities

People

  • Dylan D. Bechen

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Climate Change
  • Coastal Flooding
  • Flood Control
  • Flood Hazards
  • Meteorology
  • Sea Level
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Storm Surges

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.