UF CLIP updates will include: Sea Level Rise and Coastal-Inland Connectivity; overlay analysis comparing sea level rise scenarios with all CLIP data layers to provide a basic assessment of the potential impacts. Water Restoration modeling, Storm Protection including a separate Ecosystem Services Resource Category. 1) more refined classification of coastal natural communities or other land cover types that are most important or valuable for providing storm protection; 2) more consistent and up-to-date data identifying areas at high risk of coastal storm surge or other related water damage from storms; 3) refinement of criteria for identification of areas with larger human populations most threatened by storm surge and related storm damage; and 4) consideration of whether the current priority criteria should be modified so that more emphasis is put on proximity to denser human population centers versus coastal natural communities. The work will also include an assessment of additional areas that may be important for storm protection in the future as sea level rises and storm surge is exacerbated. Storm Surge- Modeling with HAZUS for Bay, Hillsborough and Brevard counties including base storm surge and storm surge with sea level rise.
