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Synthetic storm-driven flood-inundation grids for coastal communities along the Barnegat Bay and adjacent to the Seaside Heights tide gage from Lavallette to Lanoka Harbor, NJ

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2022

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Niemoczynski, L.M., Niemoczynski, M.J., Boetsma, A.C., and Suro, T.P., 2023, Synthetic storm-driven flood-inundation grids for coastal communities in 10 New Jersey counties: U.S Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RVF9P8.

Summary

Digital flood-inundation maps for coastal communities within Ocean County in New Jersey were created by water surfaces generated by an Advanced Circulation hydrodynamic (ADCIRC) and Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) model from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region II coastal analysis and mapping study (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2014). Six synthetic modeled tropical storm events from a library of 159 events were selected based on parameters including landfall location or closest approach location, maximum wind speed, central pressure, and radii of winds. Two storm events were selected for the tide gage providing two "scenarios" and accompanying inundation-map libraries. The contents of this data release support [...]

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The New Jersey synthetic storm-driven coastal flood-inundation maps are intended to aid residents, community planners, and first-responders in assessing the extent of flooding based on the tide elevation as shown on the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) gage web pages and as predicted by the National Weather Service. One way to address the informational gaps in flood extent is to produce a library of flood-inundation maps that are referenced to the stages recorded at the USGS tide gages.

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