Coast of Delaware Hurricane Stage-Frequency Analysis.

Abstract

This report describes the procedure and results of a hurricane stage frequency analysis for the open coast of Delaware. This analysis consisted of three interrelated tasks, each employing a numerical model. In the first task, historical hurricanes impacting the study area were analyzed to determine storm statistics and correlations. In the second task, storm surge events developed with the wind model output were simulated using a long-wave, finite element based hydrodynamic model to obtain peak storm surge elevations. With the hurricane parameters serving as input to the wind field model, together with the corresponding storm surge elevations predicted by the storm surge model, statistical techniques are used for developing frequency-of-occurrence relationships in the third task,

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA321386

Entities

People

  • David J. Mark
  • Norman W. Scheffner

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Barometric Pressure
  • Civil Engineering
  • Climate Change
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Computational Science
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Engineers
  • Frequency
  • Hurricanes
  • Information Science
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Storm Surges
  • Storms
  • Tropical Cyclones

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation