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2021
In this chapter, we present a second example of statistical estimation of extreme quantiles: millennial quantiles for storm surges at Brest (France), based on hourly sea-level measurements. We run sensitivity tests on parameter values, on the choice of analytic models for distributions, and on the statistical estimation methods chosen.
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In this chapter, we present a second example of statistical estimation of extreme quantiles: millennial quantiles for storm surges at Brest (France), based on hourly sea-level measurements. We run sensitivity tests on parameter values, on the choice of analytic models for distributions, and on the statistical estimation methods chosen.
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Methodology for Storm Surge Risk Analysis
IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008China is largely affected by marine disasters because of her long coastal line, and storm surge is the most of all. The loss of storm surge disaster annually reaches tens of billion RMB. With the change of focus from disaster reduction (DR) to disaster risk reduction (DRR), risk reduction is paid more attentions and it is gradually considered as an ...
Junhua Teng +4 more
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Storm surge prediction with cygnss winds
2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2017The NASA Earth Venture Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) is a constellation of eight observatories in a 35° inclination, ∼530 km altitude Earth orbit. Each observatory carries a 4-channel bistatic wind scatterometer receiver. Measurements of the ocean surface scattering cross section are converted to 10 meter-referenced wind speed ...
April M. Warnock +2 more
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Wind Storm and Storm Surge Mitigation
2010This monograph contains 13 technical papers presented at the First International Workshop on Wind Storm and Storm Surge Mitigation Construction: Issues of Storm, Shelter, and Safety, held in Bangladesh in 2005. The papers by U.S. and Bangladeshi scientists and engineers explore the long-term issues of wind storm, storm surge, and public safety in the ...
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2001
Most waves are formed by relatively steady winds blowing over the water surface, but, in some cases, waves can be formed by unusual meteorological events. As an example, squall line surges are caused by the movement of a relatively small atmospheric pressure perturbation at the approximate speed of the waves being generated.
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Most waves are formed by relatively steady winds blowing over the water surface, but, in some cases, waves can be formed by unusual meteorological events. As an example, squall line surges are caused by the movement of a relatively small atmospheric pressure perturbation at the approximate speed of the waves being generated.
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Civil Engineering Magazine, 2013
As Hurricane Sandy graphically illustrated, storm surge can wreak havoc on building foundations in coastal flood zones, even when the foundations have been designed in accordance with robust building codes and floodplain regulations. Losses will continue when strong storms come ashore unless the building community changes its fundamental approach to ...
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As Hurricane Sandy graphically illustrated, storm surge can wreak havoc on building foundations in coastal flood zones, even when the foundations have been designed in accordance with robust building codes and floodplain regulations. Losses will continue when strong storms come ashore unless the building community changes its fundamental approach to ...
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Sedimentology, 1979
ABSTRACTSand ridges along the coast of northern Brittany contain alternating beds of coarse and fine to medium sand 4–10 m above normal reach of highest spring tides. They were deposited in the Holocene, largely during the last centuries, by sand charged storm surges. Deformation structures at many levels in these beds have amplitudes of 2–25 cm.
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ABSTRACTSand ridges along the coast of northern Brittany contain alternating beds of coarse and fine to medium sand 4–10 m above normal reach of highest spring tides. They were deposited in the Holocene, largely during the last centuries, by sand charged storm surges. Deformation structures at many levels in these beds have amplitudes of 2–25 cm.
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1980
The reader is aware of the human and material losses due to storm surges. Therefore, there is no need to recall in details the tragedy of Holland in 1953, Japan in 1959, Germany in 1962, or all the other floodings which took place in various countries all over the world in the past or most recent years.
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The reader is aware of the human and material losses due to storm surges. Therefore, there is no need to recall in details the tragedy of Holland in 1953, Japan in 1959, Germany in 1962, or all the other floodings which took place in various countries all over the world in the past or most recent years.
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