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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-238
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-238
03 Apr 2023
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Stochastic properties of coastal flooding events – Part 2: Probabilistic analysis

Byungho Kang, Rusty A. Feagin, Thomas Huff, and Orencio Durán Vinent

Abstract. Low-intensity but high-frequency coastal flooding, also known as nuisance flooding, can negatively affect low-lying coastal communities with potentially large socioeconomic effects. This flooding also can greatly affect post-storm coastal dune recovery and reduce the long-term resilience of the back-barrier ecosystem. Recent analytical work has hypothesized that these frequent flooding events are uncorrelated in time and can be modeled as a marked Poisson process with exponentially distributed sizes, a result with important implications for the prediction of coastal flooding. Here we test this proposition using high-temporal-resolution field measurements of an eroding beach on the Texas coast. A time series of the flooded area was obtained from pictures using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based semantic segmentation methods. After defining the flooding events using a peak-over-threshold method, we found that the size of the flooding events indeed followed an exponential distribution as hypothesized. Furthermore, the flooding events were uncorrelated with one another at daily time scales, but correlated at hourly time scales. Finally, we found relatively good statistical agreement between our CNN-based empirical flooding data and run-up predictions. Our results formalize the first probabilistic model of coastal flooding events driven by wave run-up which can be used in coastal risk management and landscape evolution models.

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10 Jan 2024
Stochastic properties of coastal flooding events – Part 2: Probabilistic analysis
Byungho Kang, Rusty A. Feagin, Thomas Huff, and Orencio Durán Vinent
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 105–115, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-105-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-105-2024, 2024
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We provide a detailed characterization of the frequency, intensity and duration of flooding...
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