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Responding to a Rising Tide: Enhancing Coastal Flood Warnings for the New England Coast
More and more, communities are looking for place-based solutions to threats to their economies and infrastructure. NOAA's North Atlantic Regional Team is supporting several place-based efforts that are tailored to the vulnerabilities of the Eastern seaboard. This paper will discuss specific enhancements to the coastal flood warning process that have been undertaken in southern New England. The enhancements have fallen into three broad categories: preparedness, data collection, and the forecast process. StormSmart Coasts, a comprehensive web resource for coastal managers and homeowners, was developed to increase local preparedness. The production of a reference library of maps to visualize coastal inundation constitutes an especially promising tool for informed decision-making in advance of coastal events. Data collection, essential for a better understanding of coastal impacts from storms, has been improved through the participation of citizen volunteers using a new software program, called StormReporter. Scituate, MA, a coastal inundation pilot community, received a new tide gage that utilizes radar technology, which demonstrates high accuracy for approximately one tenth the cost of legacy systems. Additional reference markers on land have also been established in Scituate to facilitate quantitative event reports during inundation events. Finally, routine tide forecasts and non-routine coastal flood warnings have been improved through a gridded forecast editor to determine areas at risk and produce information services useful for decision-makers.
Responding to a Rising Tide: Enhancing Coastal Flood Warnings for the New England Coast
More and more, communities are looking for place-based solutions to threats to their economies and infrastructure. NOAA's North Atlantic Regional Team is supporting several place-based efforts that are tailored to the vulnerabilities of the Eastern seaboard. This paper will discuss specific enhancements to the coastal flood warning process that have been undertaken in southern New England. The enhancements have fallen into three broad categories: preparedness, data collection, and the forecast process. StormSmart Coasts, a comprehensive web resource for coastal managers and homeowners, was developed to increase local preparedness. The production of a reference library of maps to visualize coastal inundation constitutes an especially promising tool for informed decision-making in advance of coastal events. Data collection, essential for a better understanding of coastal impacts from storms, has been improved through the participation of citizen volunteers using a new software program, called StormReporter. Scituate, MA, a coastal inundation pilot community, received a new tide gage that utilizes radar technology, which demonstrates high accuracy for approximately one tenth the cost of legacy systems. Additional reference markers on land have also been established in Scituate to facilitate quantitative event reports during inundation events. Finally, routine tide forecasts and non-routine coastal flood warnings have been improved through a gridded forecast editor to determine areas at risk and produce information services useful for decision-makers.
Responding to a Rising Tide: Enhancing Coastal Flood Warnings for the New England Coast
Thompson, Robert (author)
Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference 2011 ; 2011 ; Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2011 ; 436-447
2011-06-21
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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