Atlantic Coast Water Level Predictions

Abstract

Selection of a design water level for use in coastal projects is often a difficult task when there is a lack of reliable historic data. Use of a design level which is easily exceeded may result in failure of the project while a conservative selection of design water level results in additional project cost. Therefore it is to the coastal engineer's advantage to be able to predict the probability of a water level being exceeded at a specific site. This probability must include the combined effects of astronomical tides and storm surge. For example, the occurrence of a storm surge concurrent with a spring high tide will produce a substantial water level rise, but will have a small probability of occurring.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA587679

Entities

Organizations

  • Coastal Engineering Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Climate Change
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Sea Level
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Statistics
  • Storm Surges
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Statistical inference.
  • Systems Analysis and Design