Cyclone Storm Surge
Oral
Christopher Bender, PhD, PE, D.CE
Senior Engineer
Taylor Engineering, Inc
Ashley Kauppila
Taylor Engineering, Inc.
As part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region IV effort to update coastal flooding estimates along the east coast of Florida and the Georgia coasts, Taylor Engineering developed and executed two-dimensional hydrodynamic and wave model (SWAN+ADCIRC) simulations of Hurricane Matthew. Results show the model can reasonably reproduce measured coastal water level and wave conditions. Study results should prove relevant to those conference attendees interested in coastal modeling and coastal processes and provide insights into how the recently developed FEMA models simulate a storm that influenced coasts from Florida to North Carolina.