Predicting severe winter coastal storm damage
2010; IOP Publishing; Volume: 5; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034004
ISSN1748-9326
AutoresDavid M. Hondula, Robert Dolan,
Tópico(s)Coastal and Marine Dynamics
ResumoOver the past 40 years residents of, and visitors to, the North Carolina coastal barrier islands have experienced the destructive forces of several 'named' extratropical storms. These storms have caused large-scale redistributions of sand and loss of coastal structures and infrastructure. While most of the population living on the islands are familiar with the wintertime storms, the damage and scars of the 'super northeasters'—such as the Ash Wednesday storm of 7 March 1962, and the Halloween storm of 1989—are slipping away from the public's memory. In this research we compared the damage zones of the 1962 Ash Wednesday storm, as depicted on aerial photographs taken after the storm, with photos taken of the same areas in 2003. With these high-resolution aerial photos we were able to estimate the extent of new development which has taken place along the Outer Banks of North Carolina since 1962.
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