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Defining Nationally Consistent Coastal Flood Severity Thresholds
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For effective flood mitigation, monitoring systems that help planners and managers understand flooding patterns over space and time are crucial ...
Quantifying Nature’s Defenses: Evaluating Wetlands as Nature-based ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/quantifying-natures-defenses-evaluating-wetlands-as-nature-based-solutions-for-flood-resilience-in-climate-ready-coastal-communities/
Researchers will produce high-resolution flood exposure maps demonstrating both wetland and traditional gray infrastructure flood reduction potential ...
Team Evaluates Moisture Sensors to Study Flood Impacts on Road ...
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Left: Drilling of a hole that can be used to place the instruments (moisture sensors and piezometers). Right: Placement of a piezometer, which is used ...
Model Predicts Resilience of Roads After Flood Events
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With coastal flooding becoming more common, roadway resilience to such events is top of mind for many communities. Pavements are highly susceptible to ...
Supporting Nature-based Solutions for Flood Mitigation
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We are co-producing research with two frontline communities in Hawaii to map future and desired nature-based solutions to support socio-ecological ...
Enhancing Coastal Transportation Infrastructure Resilience to Compound ...
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We are assessing the resilience of coastal transportation infrastructure to compound flooding in the Mobile Bay, Alabama, area to inform ...
Hardening Shorelines to Reduce Saltwater Intrusion and Coastal Erosion ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/hardening-shorelines-may-lead-to-inland-flooding/
Flooded water could be removed via pumping, but reliance on pumps is costly and can lead to a point of failure in flood mitigation plans. This study ...
Evaluating the Performance of Nature-Based Solutions: A Systematic Map
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In particular, the compiled systematic map highlights evidence clusters related to ecological outcomes (species abundance, biodiversity), physical ...
Assessing Community Vulnerability to Inland and Coastal Flood Hazard in ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/assessing-community-risk-in-relation-to-inland-flood-hazard-in-washington-county-and-east-grand-region-maine/
Communities in Maine’s Washington County and Greater East Grand Region experience flooding and other climate-driven hazards. Impacts from these events ...
Assessing Community Risk in Relation to Flood Hazards in the Baltimore ...
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Coastal communities in the United States are forced to grapple with flooding, storms, and other hazards, and these challenges are anticipated to ...
Community Vulnerability Assessment to Flood Hazard in the U.S. Virgin ...
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The team developed indicators of social and structural vulnerability, structural exposure, and flood hazard, and intersected them spatially to produce ...
NCCOS Scientist Receives Prestigious Presidential Award
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Researchers then determined the benefits of flood protection, including people, property, and economic activity that would otherwise be at risk. The ...
Flood Model Predicts Impacts, Benefits of Different Adaptation Actions ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/advanced-flood-modeling-study-predicts-impacts-and-benefits-of-different-adaptation-actions/
A new study, partially funded by NCCOS, developed a framework for evaluating the physical, economic, and demographic impacts and benefits of ...
Assessing Community Risk in Relation to Flood Hazard in the U.S. Virgin ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/assessing-community-risk-in-relation-to-flood-hazard-in-the-u-s-virgin-islands/
Communities in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) experience flooding, storms, and other climate-driven hazards. Impacts from these events are felt ...
Beach Width Provides Greatest Protection Against Flooding, Erosion ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/beach-width-provides-greatest-protection-against-flooding-erosion-during-long-storms/
Dune erosion, or scarping, caused by Hurricane Matthew along Shackleford Banks, North Carolina. Credit: Laura Moore. Beaches and sand dunes are ...
NCCOS PROJECT - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/a-cost-benefit-analysis-of-green-gray-infrastructure-for-sea-level-rise-adaptation-in-the-pacific-northwest-incorporating-externalities-and-ecosystem-co-benefits/
Locations of the two estuaries, Grays River and Coos Bay, that are the focus of this project. Credit: Oregon State University. We are evaluating the ...
Communities in Southwest Florida Receive New Tools and Information to ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/communities-in-southwest-florida-receive-new-tools-and-information-to-plan-for-floods/
The second paper makes predictions for 2100 on the joint probabilities of landfalling cyclones and sea level rise to offer a longer term perspective ...
Transportation Systems and Flood Resilience under Dynamic Sea Level ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/integrated-modeling-to-assess-natural-and-nature-based-solutions-for-roadway-flooding-in-hampton-roads-virginia/
The project will allow for more connected consideration of the surface transportation network and flood mitigation actions in the study region and ...
NCCOS PROJECT - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/sea-level-rise-assessments-mitigate-surge-flooding/
Dauphin Island (AL) utilized the economic impact and flood plain data to conduct a fiscal impact analysis of the island and inform future development ...
Researchers Estimate Flood Protection Benefits of Coral Reefs in ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/determining-the-flood-protection-benefits-of-coral-reefs-in-florida-and-puerto-rico/
Storm damage to these reefs was found to increase flood risk by more than $180 million annually. The second report examines patterns of reef loss ...