Brian O. Blanton. North Carolina Coastal Flood Analysis System Computational System. Technical Report TR-08-04, RENCI, North Carolina, September 2008.
The simulation system for the North Carolina floodplain-mapping project uses a suite of state-ofthe- art numerical wind, wave, and surge models to compute stillwater and wave setup elevations along the North Carolina coast. The model suite consists of the Hurricane Boundary Layer (HBL) wind model for tropical storms (hurricanes) and OceanWeather Inc’s Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) model for extra-tropical storms; the wave-field models WaveWatch3 (WW3) and Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN), and the storm surge and tidal model ADvanced CIRCulation for Model for Oceanic, Coastal and Estuarine Waters (ADCIRC). This modeling approach is very similar to recent FEMA-sponsored projects in Louisiana and Mississippi. Each model in the system is linked through scripts that manage the simulation process on a highperformance computer at RENCI.
@TECHREPORT{LFRT2008:tr0804,
AUTHOR = {Brian O. Blanton},
TITLE = {North Carolina Coastal Flood Analysis System Computational System},
INSTITUTION = {RENCI},
YEAR = {2008},
NUMBER = {TR-08-04},
ADDRESS = {North Carolina},
MONTH = {September},
ABSTRACT = {The simulation system for the North Carolina floodplain-mapping project uses a suite of state-ofthe- art numerical wind, wave, and surge models to compute stillwater and wave setup elevations along the North Carolina coast. The model suite consists of the Hurricane Boundary Layer (HBL) wind model for tropical storms (hurricanes) and OceanWeather Inc’s Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) model for extra-tropical storms; the wave-field models WaveWatch3 (WW3) and Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN), and the storm surge and tidal model ADvanced CIRCulation for Model for Oceanic, Coastal and Estuarine Waters (ADCIRC). This modeling approach is very similar to recent FEMA-sponsored projects in Louisiana and Mississippi. Each model in the system is linked through scripts that manage the simulation process on a highperformance computer at RENCI.},
URL = {http://www.renci.org/publications/techreports/TR-08-04.pdf}
}
