Impact Modelling of Hurricane Sandy on the Rockaways: Relating high-resolution storm characteristics to observed impact with use of Bayesian Belief Networks

Hurricane Sandy (2012), which made landfall in New Jersey on October 29th, made devastating impact on the East Coast of the USA and struck major parts of New York City, including the economic centre of Manhattan. The total damage (in the USA and Caribbean) is in excess of 100 billion US$ with estimates ranging between 78 and 97 billion US$ for...

Mathematical Modelling of 3D Coastal Morphology

The present lecture deals with models for situations in which the spatial dimensions cannot be separated according to the scales of the morphological processes. Rather common examples of such situations are the morphological evolution near structures (e.g, breakwaters), river outflows, tidal inlets, etc. But also in the absence of such distinct...

Computation of Coastal Morphology

To solve coastal sediment transport and morphology problems, it is necessary to construct a hydrodynamics model to simulate the fluid flow. The hydrodynamics model is then used to calculate sediment transport rates and in turn, these sediment transport rates are used to determine morphology. The hydrodynamics model is based on the Equation of...