Hurricane Surge Stage-Frequency Analysis for Dade County, Florida.

Abstract

A numerical investigation of the hurricane surge stage-frequency relationship has been performed for a 14.3-mile section of the Atlantic coast of Dade County, Florida. An idealized coast was used to represent current improvements to erosion and hurricane protection structures being supervised by the U. S. Army Engineer District, Jacksonville. The vertically integrated equations of motion are solved, using the formalism of the orthogonal curvilinear numerical open-coast surge model, SSURGE III. This model includes Coriolis effects, surface wind stress, bottom frictional stress, and the 'inverted barometer' effect, but omits the nonlinear convective acceleration terms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA089735

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People

  • Charles E. Abel

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Databases
  • Engineers
  • Frequency
  • Geometric Forms
  • Grids
  • Hurricanes
  • Information Science
  • Meteorology
  • Probability
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Statistics
  • Storm Surges
  • Storms
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Waterways

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)