Surging Seas
Surging Seas is an online mapping tool designed to visualize sea level rise and costal flood hazards across the United States. For specific regions sea level and storm surge effects, damage predictions, and a calculated social vulnerability index are shown.
- Developer
- Climate Central
- Model Information
- For more information about this model, go to sealevel.climatecentral.org
- Spatial Resolution
- The spatial resolution is based on topographic data defined by the NOAA elevation maps.
- Temporal Resolution
- The simulation time step is on the decadal scale. The model is intended for long term sea level rise accuracy rather than short term event based accuracy.
- Outputs
- Outputs generated include coastal inundation maps, sea level rise predictions, flood risk metrics and social vulnerability metrics.
- Intended User
- practitioner, decision maker
- Model Type
- risk communication
- Inclusion of Climate Change
- Climate scenarios built-in to the model.
- Geographic Region
- coast
- Data Requirements
- all data sets built in
- Source Code Availability
- closed source
- Dimensions
- 3d
- Computational Burden
- low
- Scenario Modeling
- scenarios by hand only
- Coding Language
- html
- Operating System
- not applicable
- Mathematical Approach
- statistical
- Maintenance Plan
- maintained
- Date of Last Known Update
- not available
- User Manual
- go to documentation at not available
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