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  title info:
    title: Robust Hurricane Surge Response Functions
  name:
    name part: Udoh, Ikpoto Enefiok
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Irish, Jennifer L.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Kaihatu, James
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: To adequately evaluate risk associated hurricane flooding, numerous surge events must be considered, and the cost associated with high resolution numerical modeling for several storms is excessive. The Joint Probability Method with Optimal Sampling (JPM-OS) has been recently shown to be a reliable method in estimating extreme value probabilities of hurricane flooding -- it relies heavily on a hurricane surge matrix comprised of surge values from several hurricane scenarios (with varying meteorological and climate change characteristics). Surge Response Functions (SRFs) are physics-based equations developed using scaling laws to adequately scale surge response in dimensionless space; they serve as surrogates to high resolution numerical models in estimating hurricane peak surge to populate the JPM-OS surge matrix. Research presented in this dissertation is primarily focused on the development of dimensionless formulations using physics-based scaling laws to account for the contribution of forward speed (v_f), approach angle (theta) and Sea Level Rise (SLR). These parameters are incorporated into pre-existing SRFs for open coast locations and bays. For the bays, in addition to accounting for the effects of v_f and theta in the SRFs, a new dimensionless formulation for the influence of storm size (R_p) is included in the SRFs. To account for the influence of v_f in the SRFs, the dimensionless formulations primarily consist of the time it takes for surge to build up (over the shelf, for open coast SRFs and within the bays, for bay SRFs). The formulation for the influence of theta primarily accounts for the rotation of the hurricane wind field as the storm makes landfall. For the influence of R_p in the bays, the new formulation scales R_p with the farthest distance through which water mass will move inside the bay, from its center of gravity. A simple correction based on a linear model is derived to account for the influence of SLR on surge response at open coast locati…
  note: by Ikpoto Enefiok Udoh.
  note: "Major Subject: Ocean Engineering"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A & M University 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148266
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Ocean Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Hurricane
  subject:
    topic: Surge Response Functions
  subject:
    topic: Storm Size
  subject:
    topic: Sea Level Rise
  subject:
    topic: Approach Angle
  subject:
    topic: Forward Speed
  subject:
    topic: Surge
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148266
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 140113
    record change date: 20151206090955.0
    record identifier: in00003431429
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng