FHICS – Forecasting Hurricane Impacts on CoastS (Hurricane Ian Edition)

The Deltares team on modelling hurricane impacts presented their results on the impacts of Hurricane Ian at the Coastal Sediments Conference, held 12-14 April in New Orleans, LA. We show that we can accurately forecast flooding extents and beach and dune erosion and breaching around Ft. Myers, FL.

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