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Modeling Wind-Induced Waves In The Salish Sea, Zhaoqing Yang, Wei-Cheng Wu, Taiping Wang, Guillaume Mauger, Ruby Leung
Modeling Wind-Induced Waves In The Salish Sea, Zhaoqing Yang, Wei-Cheng Wu, Taiping Wang, Guillaume Mauger, Ruby Leung
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
There have been on-going efforts for increasing coastal resilience to the risk of coastal inundation as a result of sea-level rise in Washington. Accurate coastal risk projection depends on detailed and accurate information of sea level rise, including waves and storm surge induced by windstorms. This paper presents a modeling study simulating wind-induced waves in the Salish Sea. A nested-grid modeling approach was used to provide accurate and robust model simulations at various scales. The NOAA NCEP’s WaveWatch III (WW3) model is configured at global and regional scales with wind forcing obtained from the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR). For …
An Integrated Environmental And Human Systems Modeling Framework For Puget Sound Restoration Planning, Robert Mckane, Jonathan Halama, Paul Bryce Pettus, Bradley Barnhart, Allen Brookes, Kevin Djang, Tarang Khangaonkar, Isaac Kaplan, Christopher James Harvey, Emily Howe, Phillip S. Levin, Michael W. Schmidt, Raphael Girardin
An Integrated Environmental And Human Systems Modeling Framework For Puget Sound Restoration Planning, Robert Mckane, Jonathan Halama, Paul Bryce Pettus, Bradley Barnhart, Allen Brookes, Kevin Djang, Tarang Khangaonkar, Isaac Kaplan, Christopher James Harvey, Emily Howe, Phillip S. Levin, Michael W. Schmidt, Raphael Girardin
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
Local, state, federal, tribal and private stakeholders have committed significant resources to restoring Puget Sound’s terrestrial-marine ecosystem. Though jurisdictional issues have promoted a fragmented approach to restoration planning, there is growing recognition that a more coordinated systems-based restoration approach is needed to achieve recovery goals. This presentation describes our collaborative effort to develop and apply an integrated environmental and human systems modeling framework for the Puget Sound Basin, inclusive of all marine and land areas (1,020 and 12,680 sq. mi.). Our goal is to establish a whole-basin systems modeling framework that dynamically simulates biophysical interactions and transfers (water, nutrients, contaminants, …
Big Sharks In The Salish Sea: Combining Passive Acoustics With The Salish Sea Model To Predict Sixgill Shark (Hexanchus Griseus) Presence, Alli Cramer, Steve Katz, Kelly Andrews, Daniel H. Thornton
Big Sharks In The Salish Sea: Combining Passive Acoustics With The Salish Sea Model To Predict Sixgill Shark (Hexanchus Griseus) Presence, Alli Cramer, Steve Katz, Kelly Andrews, Daniel H. Thornton
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
Examination of species-environment relationships that determine broad-scale distribution patterns is a key focus of ecological research. Characterizing animal-habitat associations in the marine environment is particularly challenging given the opacity of the ocean, and addressing this question in marine systems has consequently lagged behind terrestrial systems. In this project, we have leveraged existing data on locations of a large marine predator, the Sixgill Shark, Hexanchus griseus, and linked that with the PNNL’s Salish Sea Model over the domain of shark movement in Puget Sound, Washington state. Twenty-nine Sixgill sharks were tracked from 2005-2009 across 130 hydrophone receivers with tags that reported …
A Modeling Study Of Storm Surge In The Salish Sea, Zhaoqing Yang, Taiping Wang, Ian Miller
A Modeling Study Of Storm Surge In The Salish Sea, Zhaoqing Yang, Taiping Wang, Ian Miller
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
The Pacific Northwest coasts are subject to the threat of coastal inundation as a result of storm surge. This snapshot presentation provides an overview of a modeling study of storm surge in the Salish Sea using a high resolution coastal hydrodynamic model. A series of historical storm surge events were identified based on non-tidal residual (NTR) water levels observed at Seattle tide gage. Model simulations corresponding to selected storm surge events were conducted. The Salish Sea storm surge model was validated with both observed tidal and NTR data at NOAA tide gauges in the Salish Sea. Sensitivity analysis on the …