TITLE:
Modeling Integrated Coastal Flood Hazard in Hurricane Season
AUTHORS:
Liber Galbán Rodríguez, Lázaro Rodríguez Tamayo, Fernando Durán Rodríguez, Alexis Santiago Perez Figueredo
KEYWORDS:
Coastal Flood, Hurricane, Modeling, Density Factor, GIS, Santiago De Cuba
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection,
Vol.9 No.10,
October
29,
2021
ABSTRACT: The manuscript proposed a procedure designed to determine the hazard of
total coastal flooding during the impact of hurricanes, which uses in its
formulation the combination of river flooding and that caused by marine
upwelling, which is multiplied by a density factor of the water that finds an explanation
for the effect is shielding and rising of the water level when the currents of
both floods collide in the coastal zone. The application of the procedure
experimentally in the coastal sector Sevilla, of the municipality Guama
province Santiago de Cuba, resulting in the
confirmation of areas previously modeled
and estimated coastal flooding in the wake of extreme weather events in
the study area; in addition to other new areas that confirm the actual visual
and instrumental observations not included in previous studies.