FHICS: Forecasting of Hurricane Impacts on Coastal Systems

Team Members

Deltares USA

• Kees Nederhoff

Deltares

• Ap van Dongeren
• Maarten van Ormondt
• Ellen Quataert
• Marlies van der Lugt
• Floortje Roelvink
• Tim Leijnse
• Robert McCall
• Roel de Goede
• Panos Athanasiou

USGS – St. Pete

• Davina Passeri
• Meg Palmsten
• Rangley Mickey

USGS – Santa Cruz

• Sean Vitousek
• Patrick Barnard

NRL - Stennis

• Jay Veeramony
• Allison Penko

IHE Delft

• Dano Roelvink

Team Objectives

Delft3D-FM system with additional components such as XBeach, PIG-F, CoSMoS-COAST and SFINCS for the Eastern US and Gulf of Mexico.

Use a deterministic forecast and probabilistic approach for a single daily forecast of the nearshore wave, storm surge, currents, sediment transport, morphological change, breaches, flooding and structure response.

Newest Updates

Nederhoff
September 24, 2024
Deltares Modelling Results Presented at ICCE2024 and in Storymap
Deltares presented their results on coastal flooding and damages due to hurricanes Ian (2022), Idalia (2023), Beryl (2024) and Francine (2024) at ICCE2024 and in Storymap.

Nederhoff
November 30, 2023
The Deltares modelling teams present 2023 Hurricane season results at Seattle all-hands meeting
At the Seattle All-hands meeting in November 2023, the Deltares Modelling Team presented their results on the 2023 Hurricane Season.

Nederhoff
July 17, 2023
2023 Hurricane Season and a look back at Ian
The Deltares team forecasts 2023 hurricane activity for the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts, and looks back at predictions for Hurricane Ian.