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HIGH-RESOLUTION STATE-OF-THE-ART COASTAL INUNDATION MODEL INCLUDING RIVERS AND FLOODPLAINS ALONG FLORIDA’S BIG BEND REGION PI: Scott C. Hagen (shagen@mail.ucf.edu) – Director of the hp CHAMPS Lab (University of Central Florida) The team consists of the University of Central Florida (Peter Bacopoulos, Scott C. Hagen, and Stephen C. Medeiros), Ardaman and Associates, Inc. (Mike Salisbury), ARCADIS, Inc. (John Atkinson, Hugh Roberts, and Shan Zhou), and Marea Technology, LLC (David Coggin), with funding provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through the Northwest Florida Water Management District. The effort is to develop a state-of-the-art coastal inundation model for Franklin, Wakulla, and Jefferson counties located along Florida’s Big B d R i Th d l i bi d t i t i di it l t l fl d l i i f FEMA Thi h d d i d l f th b i f Bend Region. The model is being used to assist in digital coastal floodplain mapping for FEMA. This hydrodynamic model forms the basis for our sea level rise project for NOAA and can be coupled with a transport model to estimate oil spill fate and transport. Florida’s Big Bend Region is located along the northeastern Gulf coast. The modeled floodplain boundary is at the Modeled Floodplain Boundary ~15-m contour and includes Franklin, Wakulla, and Jefferson, and portions of Gulf and Taylor counties. The digital elevation model is based on LIDAR (circa 2008) processed at the 3-meter scale. Atlantic Ocean Taylor Jefferson Wakulla Bay Calhoun Liberty Leon Gadsden Jackson Wakulla Leon ~30 miles A large-scale, high-resolution mesh includes ~850,000 nodes. Resolution in Florida’s Big Bend Region goes down to the 30-meter scale. Gulf of Mexico Caribbean Sea Franklin Gulf 30 miles to the 30 meter scale. Coastal rivers, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, barrier islands, and the coastal and upland floodplains are all described in full detail. A hindcast of Hurricane Opal provides validation for the hydrodynamic modeling effort. Plots of maximum envelopes of water are modeling products used for the purpose of FEMA fl d l i i FEMA floodplain mapping. Accuracy of the modeling results can be measured where observations were taken for the (historical) hurricanes.

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HIGH-RESOLUTION STATE-OF-THE-ART COASTAL INUNDATION MODELINCLUDING RIVERS AND FLOODPLAINS ALONG FLORIDA’S BIG BEND REGION

PI: Scott C. Hagen ([email protected]) – Director of the hp CHAMPS Lab (University of Central Florida)g ( g @ ) p ( y )

The team consists of the University of Central Florida (Peter Bacopoulos, Scott C. Hagen, and Stephen C. Medeiros), Ardaman and Associates, Inc. (Mike Salisbury), ARCADIS, Inc. (John Atkinson, Hugh Roberts, and Shan Zhou), and Marea Technology, LLC (David Coggin), with funding provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through the Northwest Florida Water Management District.

The effort is to develop a state-of-the-art coastal inundation model for Franklin, Wakulla, and Jefferson counties located along Florida’s Big B d R i Th d l i b i d t i t i di it l t l fl d l i i f FEMA Thi h d d i d l f th b i f Bend Region. The model is being used to assist in digital coastal floodplain mapping for FEMA. This hydrodynamic model forms the basis for our sea level rise project for NOAA and can be coupled with a transport model to estimate oil spill fate and transport.

Florida’s Big Bend Region is located along the northeastern Gulf coast.

The modeled floodplain boundary is at the Modeled

Floodplain Boundary

f p y~15-m contour and includes Franklin, Wakulla, and Jefferson, and portions of Gulf and Taylor counties.

The digital elevation model is based on LIDAR (circa 2008) processed at the 3-meter scale.

Atlantic Ocean

Taylor

Jefferson

WakullaBay

Calhoun

Liberty

LeonGadsden