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Program Details

Sunday November 8

  • 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Workshop Registration Desk Open

  • 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Icebreaker

6:00 p.m. Session P: Poster

  • P1 Extreme responses in coastal engineering: experimental and numerical modelling with wave groups

    • Paul H. Taylor, C. N. Whittaker, C. J. Fitzgerald and A. C.Raby
      Presenter: Paul H. Taylor
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  • P2 An update on operational wave forecasting at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center

    • Paul A. Wittmann, Phaedra Jessen, Raymond C. Lee and Charles E. Skupniewicz
      Presenter: Paul A. Wittmann
  • P3 Analysis of a fishery vessel accident database

    • Gao Zhiyi, Yu Fujiang, Li Benxia, Zhang Yunfei and Wang Yanqiang
      Presenter: Gao Zhiyi
  • P4 A high resolution, coupled model of the Bay of Bengal: Impact on Storm Surge Forecast

    • Jennifer Evans, Kevin Horsburgh, Judith Wolf, Chris Hughes and David Schultz
      Presenter: Jennifer Evans
  • P5 A simple wave setup model for operational use

    • Nadao Kohno and Masatoshi Chikasawa
      Presenter: Nadao Kohno
  • P6 The value of data assimilation for modelling tropical cyclone storm surges

    • David Byrne
      Presenter: David Byrne
  • P7 HOMERE, a high resolution hindcast database for resource assessment and other metocean applications

    • C. Maisondieu, M. Prevosto, and P. Ailliot
      Presenter: C. Maisondieu
  • P8 Calibration of wave spectra observed by a marine wave observation system

    • Sohei Yoneda, Nadao Kohno, Hiroshi Ohno], Masakazu Takagi, Hideyuki Ando, Jingo Shibata, Ryo Kakuta, Keiichi Hirayama, Mitsunori Baba, Tatsuya Enokido, and Hisaki Nishiyama
      Presenter: Nadao Kohno
  • P9 EC-DSBB: 35-Year Continuous Wind and Wave Hindcast in Baffin Bay

  • P10 The National Data Buoy Center - Second JCOMM Marine Instrument Workshop for WMO Regional Association IV

    • Richard H. Bouchard, Joe Swaykos, Shannon McArthur, Karen Grissom, Rex Hervey, Regina Moore, Rodney Riley, Angela Strong and Natalie Guess
      Presenter: Richard H. Bouchard
  • P11 Wave, tide and surge interaction in the Gulf of Maine during the Patriot’s Day storm

    • Qing-Ping Zou, Dongmei Xie and John W. Cannon
      Presenter: Qing-Ping Zou

Monday November 9

  • 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Session A: Wave Measurement - In Situ

Chair: Val Swail

Session B: Wave Measurement - In Situ-2

Chair: Robert Jensen

  • 10:30 a.m - B1 - The provenance of the accuracy statement for NDBC’s wave direction measurements

  • 10:50 a.m. - B2 - Trends and Changes in the NDBC Wave Records of the U.S. East Coast

    • Elizabeth A. Livermont, Jon K. Miller and Thomas O. Herrington
      Presenter: Elizabeth A. Livermont
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  • 11:10 a.m - B3 - Observed orbital velocity of extreme waves and directional spectrum

    • Takuji Waseda, Keiji Kiyomatsu, Wataru Fujimoto, Peter Jansen, Eric Schulz, Alex Babanin, and Henrique Rapizo
      Presenter: Takuji Waseda
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  • 11:30 a.m. -B4 - Current-induced wave modulations observed by a GPS wave buoy deployed near Kozu Island, Japan

  • 11:50 a.m. Lunch

Session C: Wave Measurement - Remote Sensing

Chair: Mark Bushnell

  • 1:30 p.m. - C1 - Ocean Wave Measurements by TerraSAR

    • Susanne Lehner, Andrey Pleskachevsky and Wolfgang Rosenthal
      Presenter: Wolfgang Rosenthal
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  • 1:50 p.m. - C2 - Surface wave measurements in space and time using coherent marine radars

    • Jochen Horstmann, Ruben Carrasco, Joerg Seemann and Michael Stresser
      Presenter: Jochen Horstmann
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  • 2:10 p.m. - C3 - Validation of Marine X-band Radar’s Multi-Directional Wave Retrieval Capabilities

    • Björn Lund, Hans C. Graber, Hitoshi Tamura and Clarence O. Collins III
      Presenter: Clarence O. Collins III
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  • 2:30 p.m. - C4 - Modifying and Implementing an Inversion Algorithm for Shallow Water Wave Characteristics from a Broad-Beam HF Radar Network

    • Elizabeth A. Livermont, Thomas O. Herrington and Jon K. Miller
      Presenter: Elizabeth A. Livermont
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  • 2:50 p.m. - C5 - Spatial heterogeneity of wave fields

    • Johannes Gemmrich, Erick Rogers, Jim Thomson, Andrey Pleskachevsky and Susanne Lehner
      Presenter: Johannes Gemmrich
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  • 3:10 p.m. Break

Session D: Tropical Systems

Chair: Don Resio

  • 3:30 pm - D1 - Classification of radial wind profiles for Gulf of Mexico tropical cyclones

  • 3:50 p.m. - D2 - Are Third Generation wave models able to provide accurate stress estimates for hurricane predictions?

  • 4:10 p.m. - D3 - Towards a new tropical cyclone risk assessment system – a linear stochastic model of tropical cyclone intensity

    • Chia-Ying Lee, Michael Tippett, Adam Sobel and Suzana Camargo
      Presenter: Chia-Ying Lee
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  • 4:30 p.m - D4 - Generalization of the Holland Parametric Tropical Cyclone Model for Forecast Applications

  • 4:50 p.m. - D5 - The Atlantic Hurricane Database Reanalysis Project

  • 5:10 p.m. Sessions end for day

Tuesday November 10

Session E: Storm Surge Forecasting and Climate

Chair: Kevin Horsburgh

Session I: Wave Modelling

Chair: Jeff Melby

  • 10:30 a.m - I1 - Offshore and Nearshore Wave Modeling Within the South Florida Storm Surge Modeling Project

    • Christopher Bender, Ashley Kauppila and William Miller
      Presenter: Christopher Bender
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  • 10:50 a.m. - I2 - Air-sea interaction and ocean waves

  • 11:10 a.m. - I3 - On the use of a high resolution wind forcing in the operational coastal wave model WW3

    • Alice Dalphinet, Lotfi Aouf, Christophe Bataille and Héloïse Michaud]
      Presenter: Alice Dalphinet
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  • 11:30 a.m - I4 - Comparison of a Deepwater Hindcast to Directional Wave Spectra Measured with an ADCP

  • 11:50 a.m. - I5 - Wave Information Studies Online Validation and Visualization of 30+ year Wave Hindcast

  • 12:10 p.m. Lunch

Session F: Wave Climate and Design

Chair: Kjersti Bruserud

  • 1:30 p.m - F1 - Measured crest height distribution compared to second order distribution

  • 1:50 p.m. - F2 - An extreme value model for maximum wave heights based on weather types

    • Ana Rueda, Paula Camus, Antonio Tomás, Fernando Méndez and Alberto Luceño
      Presenter: Ana Rueda
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  • 2:10 p.m - F3 - Monte-Carlo climate-based multivariate emulator for coastal flooding

  • 2:30 p.m. - F4 - Application of Triple Collocation Technique to Wave Resource Assessments and Wave Energy Converter Energy Production

    • Bryson Robertson, Yuhe Lin and Bradley Buckham
      Presenter: Bryson Robertson

Session G: Storm Surge Modelling

Chair: Mikhail Entel

  • 1:30 p.m. - G1 - Air-Sea Interaction in Extreme Weather Conditions

    • Hans de Vries, Niels Zweers, Vladimir Makin, Vladimir Kudryavtsev and Gerrit Burgers
      Presenter: Hans de Vries
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  • 1:50 p.m - G2 - On the use of ARPEGE down-scaled winds in the storm surge and wave models of Meteo France

    • Lotfi Aouf, Alice Dalphinet, Guillaume Morvan, Patrick Ohl, Emilie Bresson and Philippe Arbogast
      Presenter: Lotfi Aouf
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  • 2:10 p.m - G3 - The Effect of Density Stratification and Atmospheric Forecast Uncertainty on the Prediction of Total Water Level

    • Tsubasa Kodaira, Keith R. Thompson and Natacha Bernier
      Presenter: Tsubasa Kodaira
  • 2:30 p.m. - G4 - Development of the Fully Adaptive Storm Tide (FAST) Model

    • David Kelly, Yi-Cheng Teng, Yuepeng Li and Keqi Zhang
      Presenter: David Kelly
  • 2:50 p.m. Break

Session J: Storm Surge Forecasting

Chair: Diana Greenslade

Session K: Mississippi Delta and the Jersey Shore

Chair: Jill Dixon

Wednesday November 11

Session L: Wave Climate

Chair: Judith Wolf

Session M: Wave Modelling - 2

Chair: Gerbrant van Vledder

Session N: Coastal - 1

Chair: Taylor Asher

  • 10:30 a.m - N1 - Comparison of Wave and Current Measurements to Hindcast Data in the Northern North Sea

    • Kjersti Bruserud and Sverre Haver
      Presenter: Kjersti Bruserud
  • 10:50 a.m. - N2 - Observed and simulated wave-tide interaction in a region of high tidal flow

    • M.J. Lewis, S.P. Neill, P. Robins, M. Piano, S. Ward and R. Hashemi
      Presenter: M.J. Lewis
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  • 11:10 a.m. - N3 - Tropical Storm Response Prediction Using Surrogate Models

    • Jeffrey Melby, Seung-Woo Kim, Norberto Nadal-Caraballo and Jay Ratcliff]
      Presenter: Jeffrey Melby
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  • 11:30 a.m. - N4 - Dynamics of storm surge characteristics and its devastating flooding of Nigerian coast: A case study of Lagos beach

  • 11:50 a.m. - N5 - Response of water temperature to surface wave effects in the Baltic Sea: simulations with the coupled NEMO-WAM model

    • Victor Alari, Øyvind Breivik, Joanna Staneva, Jean-Raymond Bidlot, Kristian Mogensen and Peter Janssen
      Presenter: Øyvind Breivik
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Session O: Wave Modelling - 3

Chair: Chris Bender

Session Q: WMO Coastal Inundation Forecasting Demonstration Project

Chair: Val Swail

  • 1:30 p.m - Q1 - Application of an Efficient Second-Generation Wave Model to Coupled Source Modeling

    • Andre van der Westhuysen, Dongming Yang, Jamie Rhome, Cristina Forbes and Keqi Zhang
      Presenter: Andre van der Westhuysen
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  • 1:50 p.m. - Q2 - System Implementation of Coastal Inundation Forecasting Demonstration Project-Indonesia (CIFDP-I)

    • Nelly Florida Riama, Andi Eka Sakya, N. Nurhayati and Andri Ramdhani
      Presenter: Nelly Florida Riama
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  • 2:10 p.m - Q3 - Wave inundation hindcasting and forecasting on fringing reefs

  • 2:30 p.m. - Q4 - Coastal Inundation Forecasting and Community Response in Bangladesh

Session R: Wave Modelling - 4

Chair: Will Perrie

  • 1:30 p.m. - R1 - Source term balance in severe storms in the Southern North Sea

    • Gerbrant van Vledder, Sander Hulst, Jason McConochie and James Salmon
      Presenter: S.M.H. Fahkruddin
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  • 1:50 p.m - R2 - On the assimilation of Sentinel-1A ASAR wave spectra in the wave model MFWAM

  • 2:10 p.m. - R3 - High Frequency Internal Solitary Waves – Measurement and Modelling

    • Steve Buchan and Kenji Shimizu
      Presenter: Steve Buchan
  • 2:30 p.m. - R4 - Rain and the dynamics of wind waves

    • Luigi Cavaleri, Luciana Bertotti and Jean-Raymond Bidlot
      Presenter: Luigi Cavaleri
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  • 2:50 p.m. Sessions end for day

  • 6:00 p.m. Reception

  • 7:00 p.m. Banquet

Thursday November 12

Session S: Wave Forecasting Developments

Chair: Jean Bidlot

Session T: Coastal - 2

Chair: Bill Dally

Session U: Wave Forecasting

Chair: Oyvind Breivik

Session V: North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study

Chair: Rick Luettich

  • 10:30 a.m. - V1 - North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS): An Overview of the Storm Selection and Numerical Modeling

  • 10:50 a.m - V2 - Coastal Storm Hazards from Virginia to Maine

    • Norberto Nadal-Caraballo, Jeffrey A. Melby and Victor M. Gonzalez
      Presenter: Jeffrey A. Melby
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  • 11:10 a.m. - V3 - Regional Wave Modeling and Evaluation for the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS)

  • 11:30 a.m. - V4 - Nearshore wave modeling and validation for the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS)

  • 11:50 a.m. - V5 - USACE-ERDC’s Coastal Storm Modeling System (CSTORM-MS) with Applications to the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS)

  • 12:10 p.m. Lunch

Session W: Coastal - 3

Chair: Jane Smith

Session X: Problem Synthesis

Chair: Michael Salisbury

Session Y: Operational Forecast Challenges and Issues

Chair: Jamie Rhome

  • 3:30 p.m. - Y1 - Implementation of a Coupled Storm Surge plus Waves Modeling System at the National Hurricane Center

    • Cristina Forbes, Andre Van der Westhuysen, Craig Mattocks and Jamie Rhome
      Presenter: Cristina Forbes
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  • 3:50 p.m - Y2 - Operational Storm Surge Forecasting at the National Hurricane Center

  • 4:10 p.m - Y3 - The Next Generation of SLOSH Grids

  • 4:30 p.m - Y4 - Research to Operations: A Wave, Surge and Inundation Modeling Testbed for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands

    • Andre van der Westhuysen, Carlos Anselmi, Ernesto Rodriguez, Jesse Feyen, Jamie Rhome, Cristina Forbes, Joannes Westerink, Juan Gonzalez, Aurelio Mercado-Irizarry, Reniel Calzada, Julio Morell, Jane Smith and Jay Veeramony
      Presenter: Andre van der Westhuysen
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  • 4:50 p.m - Y5 - Local National Weather Service Marine Forecast Products/Services and Operational Challenges

Session Z: Coastal Impacts

Chair: Richard Bouchard

  • 3:30 p.m. - Z1 - Tsunami Hazard and Inundation Modeling and Assessment for the U.S. Gulf Coast

  • 3:50 p.m - Z2 - Non-stationarity in US extreme sea level records and the role of large scale climate variation

  • 4:10 p.m. - Z3 - Marine Climatology Information over Indonesian Seas through MIDAS (Marine Integrated Data and Analysis System)

    • Andri Ramdhani, Andi Eka Sakya, N. Nurhayati and Nelly Florida Riama
      Presenter: Dava Amrina
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  • 4:30 p.m. - Z4 - 35-year high resolution North Atlantic wind wave hindcast

    • Alexander Gavrikov, Margarita Markina, Sergey K. Gulev and Vika Grigorieva
      Presenter: Margarita Markina
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  • 5:10 p.m. Sessions end for day

Friday November 13

Session AA: Wave Hindcasts and Climate Change

Chair: Fernando Mendez

  • 9:00 a.m. -AA1 - Projections of waves in the North Atlantic under high-end emissions scenarios

  • 9:20 a.m. - AA2 - Projected changes in the Arctic Ocean wave climate using the CMIP5 simulations

  • 9:40 a.m. - AA3 - Non-stationary Extreme Values Analysis of waves: a simplified approach

    • Lorenzo Mentaschi, M. Vousdoukas, E. Voukouvalas and L. Feyen
      Presenter: Lorenzo Mentaschi
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  • 10:00 a.m. Break

Session BB: Living Shorelines

Chair: Jennifer Irish

  • 10:30 a.m. - BB1 - Living shorelines and coastal resilience: Green is the New Black

    • Holly Bamford, Ariana Sutton-Grier, Lindsey Kraatz and Leah Fisher
      Presenter: Holly Bamford
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  • 10:50 a.m. - BB2 - The Role of Nature: Understanding How Natural Features Contribute to Coastal Risk Reduction

  • 11:10 a.m. - BB3 - The importance of landscape change in the prediction of future tropical cyclone flood statistics

    • Jennifer L. Irish, Yi Liu, Donald T. Resio, Matthew Bilskie and Scott C. Hagen
      Presenter: Jennifer L. Irish

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  • 11:30 a.m. - BB4 - Storm surge and waves attenuation by wetlands and coastal marshes in the Chesapeake Bay

    • Celso M. Ferreira, Eléonore Paquier, Jana Haddad, Seth Lawler and Ali M. Rezaie
      Presenter: Celso M. Ferreira

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  • 11:50 a.m - BB5 - Evaluation techniques for the protective benefits of dune systems to coastal hazards

    • Matthew S. Janssen, Jon K. Miller and Thomas O. Herrington
      Presenter: Matthew S. Janssen
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  • 12:10 p.m. Closing Remarks

  • 12:30 p.m. Workshop Ends