The NOPP-Hurricane Coastal Impacts (NHCI) program is composed of five tasks and ten teams, with each team focusing on a specific task based on the team's expertise and the resources they have available. The five tasks are detailed below and information about each team is located in the Teams page.
Task 0
Provide deterministic, ensemble, and nowcast model support for use by collaborative teams.
Task 1
Develop quantitative Digital Elevation Models (DEM) from satellite remote sensing techniques for use before, during and after storms.
Task 2
Conduct remote sensing of coastline impacts from landfalling hurricanes.
Task 3
Develop methods to rapidly deploy wave and water level sensors for validation and assimilation data.
Task 4
Set up models for the entire US Gulf Coast, Florida Coast and Eastern Seaboard with sufficient nesting capabilities for skillful forecasting, as informed by prior tasks.
Provide deterministic, ensemble, and nowcasts model support for use by collaborative teams.
Provide a hindcast of Hurricane Michael from COAMPS-TC1
Summer/Fall - Provide hurricane track and intensity predictions for 3 landfalling hurricanes
Winter – Reanalyze the three hurricanes following best-track and intensity.
Apples-to-apples forcing for Task 4 analysis
Develop quantitative Digital Elevation Models (DEM) from satellite remote sensing techniques for use before, during and after storms.
Initial building of a Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
Regular updates to DEM and quantitative post-hurricane impact summaries
Boundary conditions and ground truth for Task 4 analysis
Conduct remote sensing of coastline impacts from landfalling hurricanes.
Develop quantitative capabilities in satellite remote sensing for building a ground-truth DEM
Obtain quantitative geophysical measurements during the three storms
Observation data for hindcast comparison and possible assimilation into model forecasts
Develop methods to rapidly deploy wave and water level sensors for validation and assimilation data.
Develop methods for rapid deployments of offshore and nearshore wave, wind, and water level observations
Collect in situ measurements including offshore waves, as well as offshore and inland water levels
Observation data for Task 4 assimilation prior to landfall and ground truth evaluations afterward
Set up models for the entire US Gulf Coast, Florida Coast and Eastern Seaboard with sufficient nesting capabilities for skillful forecasting, as informed by prior tasks.
Model development and Hurricane Michael hindcast study
Forecasting of wave, surge, sediment transport (erosion and accretion above and below mean sea level), structure interaction and damage enabled by boundary conditions and observational data from Tasks 0-3
Improved forecasting skill of hurricane coastal impacts.