2024 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting session: Hurricane Impact Forecasting and Coastal Hazard Assessment
Kees Nederhoff
Dear colleagues,
We are happy to introduce the following session: ‘Enhancing Hurricane Impact Forecasting and Coastal Hazard Assessment through Innovative Uses of In-Situ Observations, Modeling, and Real-time Remote Sensing Data’, at the 2024 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting scheduled from 18-23 February 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. If the topics resonate with your work, we invite you to submit an abstract under session RH004. Please feel free to use the following submission link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/OSM24/prelim.cgi/Session/198143.
Session description:
Real-time, accurate predictions of hurricane impacts and the assessment of associated coastal hazards are pivotal for saving lives, protecting property, and monitoring important ecosystems. Factors such as winds, waves, water levels, flooding, storm surge, coastal erosion, and damage to infrastructure are heavily influenced by ocean temperatures, cyclonic wind fields, beach/dune morphology, and land use. This session combines recent advances in process-based and statistical forecasting models with innovative uses of in-situ observations and remote sensing technologies to enhance the accuracy and resolution of hurricane impact prediction, including tracking and assessment. Remote sensing technologies (satellites, aerial surveys, drones, etc.) offer new capabilities for tracking changes in coastal geomorphology and coastal land use/cover, allowing for an assessment of a wide range of coastal hazards with increased spatiotemporal resolution. The integrated approach invites presentations covering data preparation for models, coupling process-based models, rapid-response efforts, and evaluating forecast methods. Additionally, it encourages presentations on innovative applications of remote sensing data for assessing coastal hazards from storm impacts, including the blending of remote sensing data with in situ observations. Evaluation of this integrated forecasting and assessment approach includes hindcasting recent storms to compare model outputs against in-situ observations from fixed and drifting rapid-response sensor networks.
Kindly note, that the deadline for abstract submission is Wednesday, 13th September.
If you're aware of someone who would be interested and might not have received this notice, please share it with them. We eagerly anticipate this session and your involvement. Should you have any queries, don't hesitate to reach out. We're excited to meet you in New Orleans!
Organizers:
Kees Nederhoff - Deltares USA
Jena Kent - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nicholas Enwright - U.S. Geological Survey
Kari St.Laurent - NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service