Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
This webinar was originally broadcast on February 26, 2018 and features Dr. Katy Serafin who recently completed her doctoral research at Oregon State University. Katy's research focuses on the patterns and magnitudes of the various processes that drive extreme coastal water levels (or what are referred to as TWLs or "total water levels") along the U.S. West Coast.
Katy's top 5 insights from her webinar:
The elevation of extreme total water levels (TWL) is driven by a combination of oceanographic, geomorphologic, and fluvial processes, all of which vary in their relative importance.
In high energy, open-coast, sandy beach environments (like the U.S. West Coast) waves are a dominant driver of extreme total water levels.
Small changes to the elevation of TWLs can drive large, nonlinear changes in impacts due to the threshold nature of coastal flooding and erosion events.
The same future change to the offshore wave climate may drive site-specific differences in TWLs and their related impacts due to variations in the geologic setting (beach topography and shelf bathymetry).
"Design'" events could be under-predicted at specific locations if compound forcings (e.g., waves, rivers, tides, etc.) are not considered.
This webinar was originally broadcast on February 26, 2018 and features Dr. Katy Serafin who recently completed her doctoral research at Oregon State University. Katy's research focuses on the patterns and magnitudes of the various processes that drive extreme coastal water levels (or what are referred to as TWLs or "total water levels") along the U.S. West Coast.
Katy's top 5 insights from her webinar:
The elevation of extreme total water levels (TWL) is driven by a combination of oceanographic, geomorphologic, and fluvial processes, all of which vary in their relative importance.
In high energy, open-coast, sandy beach environments (like the U.S. West Coast) waves are a dominant driver of extreme total water levels.
Small changes to the elevation of TWLs can drive large, nonlinear changes in impacts due to the threshold nature of coastal flooding and erosion events.
The same future change to the offshore wave climate may drive site-specific differences in TWLs and their related impacts due to variations in the geologic setting (beach topography and shelf bathymetry).
"Design'" events could be under-predicted at specific locations if compound forcings (e.g., waves, rivers, tides, etc.) are not considered.
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