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Why coast?
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vulnerability to storm surge inundation Xuan Yu Sun Yat-sen - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
vulnerability to storm surge inundation Xuan Yu Sun Yat-sen - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Coastal water resources vulnerability to storm surge inundation Xuan Yu Sun Yat-sen University 1 Why coast? 2 3 Public attention goes to surface Nuisance flooding Moftakhari, H. R., AghaKouchak, A., Sanders, B. F., Allaire, M., &
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Public attention goes to surface
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Nuisance flooding
Moftakhari, H. R., AghaKouchak, A., Sanders, B. F., Allaire, M., & Matthew, R. A. ( 2018). What is nuisance flooding? Defining and monitoring an emerging challenge. Water Resources Research, 54, 4218– 4227.
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Most studies focus on surface water
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Storm surges introduce marine flood threaten water resources
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Salinization on agriculture
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Hurricane Sandy (2012) affected trees for more two years
London plane trees, once
thought to be salt tolerant, fared poorly on Long Island and in NYC after Hurricane
- Sandy. Photo Courtesy
Cornell Urban Horticulture Institute
In the summer of 2014, Long
Beach took down more than 1400 dead trees.
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Understand the process by land
- cean interaction modeling
What types of topography are vulnerable to storm surges? How to mitigate groundwater salinization?
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Storm surges and groundwater salinization
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Land – ocean interaction model
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Land – ocean interaction model
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Couple surface and subsurface flow
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Land – ocean interaction model
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Couple surface and subsurface flow Variable density flow
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Model simulation starts from hours to decades
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Topography varies laterally and vertically
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Sea-level rise in the past
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Sea-level rise in the future
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Coastal water resources and flood
Erkens, G., Bucx, T., Dam, R., de Lange, G., and Lambert, J.: Sinking coastal cities, Proc. IAHS, 372, 189-198, 2015