
A full repository of presentations by NHCI team members (updated 12/2025).
Luettich, R. et al, Operational Prediction of Waves, Storm Surge, Inundation, Morphology Change and Damage from Tropical Cyclones, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 2025
Luettich, R. et al, Forecasts of Waves, Storm Surge, Flooding and Damage due to Hurricane Ian (2022), Coastal Sediments 2023, April 2023
Gorski, J. et al. Deterministic, Dynamic Forecasts of Storm-Driven Erosion during Ian (2022), Coastal Sediments 2023, April 2023
Luettich, R. et al, Forecasts of Waves, Storm Surge, Flooding and Damage due to Hurricane Ian (2022), 3rd International Workshop on Waves, Storm Surges, and Coastal Hazards, Oct 2023
Bilskie, M and R. Luettich, Mesh Decimation as a Means to Develop Accurate and Timely Predictions of Coastal Flooding, Ocean Sciences, March 2022
Luettich, R. et al, Predicting Waves, Storm Surge, Flooding and Damage due to Hurricanes Ian (2022) and Idalia (2023), Ocean Sciences, Feb 2024.
Romeiser et al, SAR-Based Monitoring of Damages to Buildings by Hurricanes, IGARSS 2025, Brisbane, Australia, August 2025.
Romeiser et al, SAR-Based Assessment of Water Lines, Water Levels, and Damages During Hurricane Landfalls, ESA Living Planet Symposium, Vienna, Austria, June 2025.
Danielson et al, The USGS Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED): Integrated Topobathymetric Models: Florida Case-Study, GeoHab Conference, Key West Florida, May, 2025.
Simons et al. High-resolution land cover mapping along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to enhance hurricane coastal impact models [abs.], 2025 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, March 24-28, 2025, Detroit, MI
Smit et al, Lagrangian Wave Observations, WISE 2025.
Mejia et al, Observed & Predicted Wave Height Spatial Distributions within Tropical Cyclones, WISE 2025.
Thomson et al, Rapid spectral adjustment across the eyewall of a hurricane, WISE 2025.
Van Dongeren et al, 2025. Forecasting hurricanes on US Coasts. EGU Ocean Science Meeting Vienna, Austria.
Leijnse et al. 2024. Integrating incident and infragravity wave effects in a fast compound flood model. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024EGUGA..26.2106L
Van Dongeren et al. 2024. Forecasting hurricane impacts including uncertainties. 2024 American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AGUOSRH51A..01V
Danielson et al, The USGS Coastal and Inland Bathymetry Update. Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) Workshop, Anchorage Alaska, October, 2024.
Van Dongeren et al. 2024. Forecasting hurricanes on US Coasts. International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Rome, Italy, 2024.
Davis et al, Spatial distribution of wave slopes within hurricanes, WISE 2024.
Romeiser et al, SAR-Based Rapid Remote Sensing of Hurricane Damages, IGARSS 2024, Athens, Greece, July 2024.
Thomson et al, microSWIFT buoys, MTS buoy workshop 2024.
Davis et al, Multiscale measurements of hurricane waves using buoys and airborne radar, CWTM 2024
Davis et al, Wave Slopes and Surface Roughness During Hurricanes, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024.
Warner et al, Using Directional Wave Spectra to improve extreme storm forecasts: Hurricane Idalia 2023, Ocean Science Meeting 2024.
Romeiser et al, TerraSAR-X Radargrammetry for Hurricane Damage Assessment, TerraSAR-X Science Team Meeting, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, October 2023.
Quataert et al. 2023. UNCERTAINTIES IN PREDICTING BARRIER ISLAND MORPHODYNAMIC RESPONSE TO HURRICANE FORCING: INFLUENCE OF VEGETATION. Coastal Sediments, New Orleans, LA.
Van Dongeren et al. 2023. FORECASTING HURRICANE IMPACTS ON COASTS USING COASTAL STORM MODELING SYSTEM (COSMOS). Coastal Sediments, New Orleans, LA.
Romeiser et al, Rapid SAR-Based Mapping of Hurricane Damages After a Landfall (poster presentation), IGARSS 2023, Pasadena, CA, July 2023.
Davis et al, Saturation of wave slopes observed during hurricanes, WISE 2023.
Zhang et al, Air-sea surface fluxes, waves, and currents in Tropical Cyclones as measured by Uncrewed Surface Vehicle Saildrones, AMS meeting 2023.
Zhang et al, Concurrent surface flux, current and wave measurements by Uncrewed Surface Vehicle Saildrones in Tropical Cyclones, AGU Fall meeting 2022.
Van Ormondt et al., 2022. Operational forecasts of compound flooding and erosion during Hurricane Ian, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AGUFMNH43C..06V
Davis et al, Wave slopes observed during hurricanes using arrays of drifting buoys, WISE 2022.
Davis et al, Distributed sampling of hurricane waves, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022.
Olabarrieta, M., Warner, J.C., Sherwood, C.R., Over,J.S., Zambon, J., He, R., Xue, G., Subgranon, A., and Klepac, S. (2022). Advancements of Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) system. Oral presentation. Water Institute Symposium. Gainesville, (FL), February 2022
Olabarrieta, M., Warner, J.C., Sherwood, C.R., Over,J.S., Zambon, J., He, R., Xue, G., Subgranon, A., and Klepac, S. (2022). Advancements of Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) system. Oral presentation. Integral MSE seminar series. August 2022
Olabarrieta, M., Hsu, C.-E., Hegermiller, C., Komaromi, W. and Doyle, J. (2022). Evolution of the directional wind-wave spectra during tropical cyclones. Oral presentation, AMS annual meeting, January 2022.
Olabarrieta, M., Warner, J.C., Sherwood, C.R., Over,J.S., Zambon, J., He, R., Xue, G., Subgranon, A., and Klepac, S. Towards forecasting the impacts of TCs. Invited talk, National Weather Service. August 2022.
Warner, J.C., Olabarrieta, M., Sherwood, C.R., Over, J.S., Zambon, J., He, R., Xue, G., Subgranon, A., and Klepac, S. (2022). Development and Applications of an Ocean, Infragravity Wave, Morphological, and Structural Response Coupled Nearshore Prediction System: NOAA Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop (UIFCW) July 18-22, 2022, College Park, MD and online, https://epic.noaa.gov/eventsposts/epic-summer-workshop/. Session: Emerging Applications- Coastal.
Warner, J.C., Development and Applications of an Ocean, Infragravity Wave, Morphological, and Structural Response Coupled Nearshore Prediction System, NOAA Coastal and Marine Modeling Branch, Aug 2, 2022. https://coastaloceanmodels.noaa.gov/seminar/
Development and Applications of an Ocean, Infragravity Wave, Morphological, and Structural Response Coupled Nearshore Prediction System, USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Aug 16, 2022. Invited presentation.
Olabarrieta, M., Warner, J.C., Sherwood, C.R., Over, J.S., Zambon, J., He, R., Xue, G., Subgranon, A., and Klepac, S. (2022). Predicting tropical cyclone impacts on coastal communities. Fluid Mechanics seminar, Stanford, October 2023.
Klepac, S., Subgranon, A., Olabarrieta, M., Zambon, J., He, R., Warrillow, J., Zue, G., Bao, D., Ou, Y., Hunter, E. (2023). Application of a data-driven machine learning framework for predicting hurricane damage to buildings in Hurricane Ian. Conference presentation. 16th International Conference on Wind Engineering, August 2023.
Klepac, S., Subgranon, A., Olabarrieta, M. (2022). Data-driven machine learning predictions of multi-hazard hurricane damage to buildings [Conference poster]. Natural Hazards Research Summit, October 2022.
Over, J.R., Sherwood, C.R., Anderberg, M.M., Bartlett, M.K., and Cramer, J.M., 2023, Topographic data, imagery, and ground control data collected in September 2023 pre and post Hurricane Lee at Head of the Meadow, Marconi, and Nauset Light beaches, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts: U.S Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GA5RJD.
Manzella Emma, John Warner, Isaac Ginis, Tetsu Hara, Angelos Papandreou, Chris Amante, Mark Carson, Jim Doyle, Muhamad Geonova, Dean Gesch, Steven Klepac, Jonathan Moskaitis, Maitane Olabarrieta, Yana Ou, Chris Sherwood, Arthriya Subgranon, Joseph Zambon (2024). Near-shore model validation and surface stress effects on inundation under Hurricane Ian. [abs.]: American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, December 12-17, 2024. [IP-168676; Approved July 30, 2024].
Mark Carson, Jacob Davis, James Doyle, Dean Gesch, Muhamad Geonova, Ruoying He, Isabel Houghton, Steven Klepac, Emma Manzella, Jonathan Moskaitis, Maitane Olabarrieta, Yanda Ou, Martha Schönau, Chris Sherwood, Arthriya Subgranon, George Xue, Joseph Zambon, John Warner (2024). Using hurricane-centric analyses to inform model-observation differences and optimal drifting wind buoy deployments. [abs.]: American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, December 12-17, 2024. [IP-168609; Approved July 30, 2024].
Olabarrieta, M., Subgranon, A., Warner, J.C., Sherwood, C.R., Over, J.S., Zambon, J., He, R., Xue, G., and Klepac, S. (2024). Predicting tropical cyclone impacts on coastal communities. Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop, NOAA, July 22-26, 2024, Jackson State University, Jackson.
Olabarrieta, M., Subgranon, A., Warner, J.C., Sherwood, C.R., Over, J.S., Zambon, J., He, R., Xue, G., and Klepac, S. (2024). Forecasting Hurricane Impacts in the US East Coast and Gulf of Mexico, July 2024. NOPP Summer forum, NOAA Coastal Ocean Modeling Seminars.
Warner John C., Maitane Olabarrieta, Christopher R. Sherwood, Mark Carson, Joe Zambon, Ruoying He, George Xue, Yanda Ou, Arthriya Subgranon, Steven Klepac, Jim Thomson, Jacob R. Davis, Isabel Houghton, Martha Schonau, Luca Centurioni (2023). Using Directional Wave Spectra to improve extreme storm forecasts: Hurricane Idalia 2023: Ocean Sciences, February 18-23, 2024, New Orleans, LA
Olabarrieta, M. (on behalf of the whole NHCI team). Predicting Tropical Cyclone Impacts. Invited talk. International Conference in Marine Sciences. Aruba. May, 2025.
Olabarrieta, M. (on behalf of the whole NHCI team). Predicting Tropical Cyclone Impacts. Keynote talk. 41st IAHR World Congress, Singapore, CORE2025. June, 2025.
Beninati, S., S. J. Frasier, and R. Romeiser, 2024. "SAR stereo radargrammetry for hurricane coastal impact monitoring," Int'l Geosci. Remote Sensing Symp. (IGARSS 2024), 8-12 July, Athens, GR, WE1.R13.6.
Ince, T., S. Beninati, O. Devecioglu, S. Frasier, M. Gabbouj, 2024. "Water region segmentation in SAR images based on compact operational U-nets, " Intl. Geosci. Remote Sensing Symp. (IGARSS 2024), 8-12 July, Athens, GR, WE2.R2.
Frasier, S. and S. Beninati, 2023. "Capella X-band observations of the Tampa area during Hurricane Ian Landfall," International Geosci & Remote Sensing Symp (IGARSS 2023), Pasadena, CA, 16-21 Jul.
Romeiser, R., H. Graber, M. Caruso, S. Frasier, 2022. “On the Potential of Near-Real-Time Satellite Remote Sensing of Ocean and Land Surface Conditions During Hurricane Landfalls,” AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 24 Feb–4 Mar 2022, Virtual. Session CP05
A StoryMap describing key aspects of the NHCI project and how they contribute to advancing scientists' ability to predict storm impacts.
The NOPP Hurricane Coastal Impacts 3A teams successfully deployed over 60 wave buoys in rapid response to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton.
Deltares presented their results on coastal flooding and damages due to hurricanes Ian (2022), Idalia (2023), Beryl (2024) and Francine (2024) at ICCE2024 and in Storymap.