A5024674054- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Climate variability and models
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Geological formations and processes
- Flow Measurement and Analysis
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
Stevens Institute of Technology
2015-2024
Wildlife Conservation Society United Kingdom
2018
RAND Corporation
2018
Northeast Climate Science Center
2016
California Maritime Academy
2012
Columbia University
2004-2011
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
2004-2011
Earth Island Institute
2010
Oregon Health & Science University
2005
University of South Carolina
2001
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of United States, creating widespread coastal flooding and over $60 billion in reported economic damage. The potential influence climate change on storm itself has been debated, but sea level rise driven by anthropogenic more clearly contributed to damages. To quantify this effect, here we simulate water levels damage both as they occurred would have across a range lower corresponding different estimates attributable rise. We find that...
River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems (RISE) is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary study of rates and dynamics governing mixing river coastal waters in an eastern boundary current system, as well effects resultant plume phytoplankton standing stocks, growth grazing rates, community structure. The RISE Special Volume presents results deduced from four field studies two different numerical model applications, including ecosystem model, buoyant originating Columbia River. This...
Three of the nine highest recorded water levels in New York Harbor region have occurred since 2010 (March 2010, August 2011, and October 2012), eight largest twenty 1990.To investigate whether this cluster high waters is a random occurrence or indicative intensified storm tides, we recover archival tide gauge data back to 1844 evaluate trajectory annual maximum tide.Approximately half long-term variance anticorrelated with decadal-scale variations North Atlantic Oscillation, while trends...
Detailed simulations, comparisons with observations, and model sensitivity experiments are presented for the August 2011 tropical cyclone Irene a March 2010 nor'easter that affected New York City (NYC) metropolitan area. These storms brought strong winds, heavy rainfall, fourth seventh highest gauged storm tides (total water level), respectively, at Battery, NYC. To dissect examine role of various physical processes in controlling total level, series was performed where one process omitted...
Recent studies of flood risk at New York Harbor (NYH) have shown disparate results for the 100-year storm tide, providing an uncertain foundation mitigation response after Hurricane Sandy. Here, we present a hazard assessment that improves confidence in our understanding region's present-day potential flooding, by separately including contribution tropical cyclones (TCs) and extratropical (ETCs), validating modeling study multiple stages against historical observations. The TC is based on...
Coastal communities around the world are facing increased coastal flooding and shoreline erosion from factors such as sea-level rise unsustainable development practices. engineers managers often rely on gray infrastructure seawalls, levees breakwaters, but increasingly seeking to incorporate more sustainable natural nature-based features (NNBF). While restoration projects have been happening for decades, NNBF go above beyond restoration. They seek provide with protection storms, erosion,...
Abstract Rising coastal flood risk and recent disasters are driving interest in the construction of gated storm surge barriers worldwide, with current studies recommending for at least 11 estuaries United States alone. Surge partially block estuary‐ocean exchange infrastructure across an estuary or its inlet include areas that closed only during events. They can alter stratification salt intrusion, change sedimentary systems, curtail animal migration ecosystem connectivity, impacts growing...
Changes in tidal range due to anthropogenic impacts exacerbate nuisance flooding estuaries along the U.S. coastline.
Abstract New York City (NYC) faces many challenges in the coming decades due to climate change and its interactions with social vulnerabilities uneven urban development patterns processes. This Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) report contributes Panel's mandate advise city provide timely risk information that can inform flexible equitable adaptation pathways enhance resilience change. presents up‐to‐date scientific as well updated sea level rise projections of record. We also present a new...
This chapter of the New York City Panel on Climate Change 4 (NPCC4) report provides a comprehensive description different types flood hazards (pluvial, fluvial, coastal, groundwater, and compound) facing climatological context that can be utilized, along with climate change projections, to support risk management (FRM). Previous NPCC reports documented coastal presented trends in historical future precipitation sea level but did not comprehensively assess all city's hazards. also discussed...
We present shipboard observations of very strong convergence, vertical velocities and mixing, near‐bed impacts associated with the leading‐edge front tidally‐pulsed Columbia River plume. With upwelling‐favorable winds riverflow 4900 m 3 s −1 , plume propagates as a buoyant gravity current rotary, bore‐like frontal circulation downwelling 0.35 . In waters deep 65 m, currents intensify to much 1.0 after passage, are often elevated acoustic backscatter. Mixing is locally strong, an eddy...
Abstract A new, high-resolution, hydrodynamic model that encompasses the urban coastal waters of New Jersey along Hudson River Waterfront opposite York City, York, has been developed and validated for simulating inundation during Hurricane Sandy. 3.1-m-resolution square grid combined with a high-resolution lidar elevation dataset permits street-by-street focus to modeling. The waterfront is triple-nested Stevens Institute Estuarine Coastal Ocean Hydrodynamic Model (sECOM) application; sECOM...
Abstract Two extreme heat events impacting the New York City (NYC), York, metropolitan region during 7–10 June and 21–24 July 2011 are examined in detail using a combination of models observations. The U.S. Navy's Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS) produces real-time forecasts across on 1-km resolution grid employs an urban canopy parameterization to account for influence city atmosphere. Forecasts from National Weather Service's 12-km North American (NAM)...
4.1 Background 4.2 Methods 4.3 Results and discussion 4.4 Conclusions recommendations Storm surge is an increase in water level caused by winds low atmospheric pressure combines with tides to form the total elevation during a storm, also known as storm tide or stillwater elevation. are among world's most costly deadly hazards, bringing floodwaters waves capable of damaging disabling infrastructure, homes, property, well threatening human life health. Sea rise New York metropolitan region has...
Here, we demonstrate that reductions in the depth of inlets or estuary channels can be used to reduce prevent coastal flooding. A validated hydrodynamic model Jamaica Bay, New York City (NYC), is test nature-based adaptation measures ameliorating flooding for NYC's two largest historical flood events. In addition control runs with modern bathymetry, three altered landscape scenarios are tested: (1) increasing area wetlands their 1879 footprint and but leaving deep shipping unaltered; (2)...
New York City (NYC) is threatened by 21st-century relative sea-level (RSL) rise because it will experience a trend that exceeds the global mean and has high concentrations of low-lying infrastructure socioeconomic activity. To provide long-term context for anticipated trends, we reconstructed RSL change during past ~1500 years using core salt-marsh sediment from Pelham Bay in The Bronx. Foraminifera bulk-sediment δ 13 C values were used as indicators. history accumulation was established...
How do the local impacts of Hurricane Sandy's devastating storm surge differ because phase normal astronomical tide, given spatiotemporal variability tides around New York? In weeks and months after peak came ashore at time high tide southern tip Manhattan caused record-setting flooding along York Jersey coastline, this was one question that government officials critical infrastructure managers were asking. For example, a simple superposition observed during Sandy on top in Western Long...
Coastal flooding from storm surge is one of the most dangerous and damaging natural hazards that societies face. It was responsible for half all hurricane-related mortalities in United States 1963 to 2012, far more than any other factor (Rappaport, 2014). extreme water levels are increasing globally, mainly driven by rises mean sea level (MSL; e.g., Marcos et al., 2015; Woodworth, 2017; Menéndez 2010). Sea rise also causing rapid increases annual number shallow "nuisance floods" low-lying...