Author(s)

Liber Galbán Rodríguez¹, Lázaro Rodríguez Tamayo², Fernando Durán Rodríguez¹, Alexis Santiago Perez Figueredo³

¹School of Construction, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
²Department of Topography, José Maceo Grajales Higher Institute, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
³School of Construction, Multidisciplinary Coastal Zones Study Centre, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

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.

Coastal Flood, Hurricane, Modeling, Density Factor, GIS, Santiago De Cuba

Rodríguez, L. , Tamayo, L. , Rodríguez, F. and Figueredo, A. (2021) Modeling Integrated Coastal Flood Hazard in Hurricane Season. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 9, 161-179. doi: 10.4236/gep.2021.910012.