{"id":3018,"date":"2014-10-29T08:08:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T12:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:17:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T19:17:53","slug":"picture-this-developing-storm-surge-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/2014\/10\/picture-this-developing-storm-surge-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture This: Developing Storm Surge Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rosemary Cyriac is a graduate student in the <\/em>Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering<\/em> at North Carolina State University. She is working with her adviser Casey Dietrich on a North Carolina Sea Grant research project to improve hurricane and storm surge guidance to emergency managers of the coastal counties in the state. They are collaborating with Rick Luettich at the <\/em>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences<\/em><\/a>, Brian Blanton at the <\/em>Renaissance Computing Institute<\/em><\/a>, known as RENCI<\/em>, and Jason Fleming with <\/em>Seahorse Coastal Consulting<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n When tropical storms are approaching, local, state and federal emergency managers seek visualizations of geographic data \u2014 and they need the complex data to work in common geographic systems, such as GIS and Google Earth.<\/p>\n Screen-shot of the visualization (in ArcMap) of maximum water levels (in feet) along the NC coast predicted by ADCIRC based on NHC Advisory 12 for Hurricane Arthur.<\/p><\/div>\n Such data come from ocean models that attempt to predict how the ocean behaves in the presence of specified wind, wave and tide conditions. Our research team uses ADCIRC, a model focused on the coastal ocean. It is widely used to predict inundation and flooding levels that can be used for engineering design and evacuation decisions. Prior to extreme weather events like hurricanes, these predictions provide valuable information about the nature of the impending event.<\/p>\n