Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
@conference {2882, title = {Storm Surge Assessment Methodology Based on Numerical Modelling}, journal = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics}, volume = {3}, year = {2018}, month = {2018-09-20 00:00:00}, pages = {1876-1884}, publisher = {EasyChair}, edition = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis}, abstract = {Coastal zones face severe weaknesses and high-risk situations due to coastal threats like erosion and storms and due to an increasing intensive occupation. Tropical storms events can contribute to the occurrence of these situations, by causing storm surges with high water levels and, consequently, episodes of waves overtopping and coastal flooding. This work aims to describe a methodology to estimate the storm surge occurrences in the Portuguese coastal zone, recurring to historical tropical storms data that occurred in the vicinity of Portugal and to numerical modeling of its characteristics. Delft3D software together with DelfDashboard tools were applied for the numerical modelling. An automatic generation procedure of storms was implemented based on the few available historical storms data characteristics. Obtained results allows to characterize storm surges along the Portuguese coast, identifying the most vulnerable areas and, consequently contributing for its proper planning and management.
}, keywords = {Coastal zones, Delft3D, Numerical modelling, Portugal, storm surges}, issn = {2516-2330}, doi = {10.29007/hrlw}, url = {https://easychair.org/publications/paper/8vV8}, author = {Lara, S. and Gomes, M. and Vieira, L. and Pinho, J. L. S. and Antunes do Carmo, J.} }
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
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Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt