Simulation of the 1953 storm surge in the North Sea SCIE SCOPUS

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Title
Simulation of the 1953 storm surge in the North Sea
Author(s)
Choi, Byung Ho; Kim, Kyeong Ok; Yuk, Jin-Hee; Lee, Han Soo
KIOST Author(s)
Kim, Kyeong Ok(김경옥)
Alternative Author(s)
김경옥
Publication Year
2018-12
Abstract
The 1953 North Sea floods, the Big Flood, was one of the worst natural disasters in Europe in modern times and is probably one of the most studied severe coastal floods. Several factors led to the devastating storm surge along the southern North Sea coast in combination of strong and sustained northerly winds, invert barometric effect, high spring tide, and an accumulation of the large surge in the Strait of Dover. However, the storm waves and their roles during the 1953 North Sea storm surge are not well investigated. Therefore, the effect of wave setup due to breaking waves in the storm surge processes is investigated through numerical experiments. A coupled process-based tide-wave-surge model was used to investigate and simulate the storm surge in the North Sea during January 31-February 1, 1953 and validated by comparing with historical water level records at tide gauges and wave observations at light vessels in the North Sea. Meteorological forcing inputs for the period, January 27-February 3, 1953 are reproduced from ERA-20C reanalysis data with a constant correction factor for winds. From the simulation results, it is found that, in addition to the high water due to wind setup, wave setup due to breaking waves nearshore play a role of approximately 10% of the storm surge peaks with approximately 0.2 m. The resulting modeling system can be used extensively for the preparedness of the storm surge and wave of extreme condition, and usual barotropic forecast.
ISSN
1616-7341
URI
https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/793
DOI
10.1007/s10236-018-1223-z
Bibliographic Citation
OCEAN DYNAMICS, v.68, no.12, pp.1759 - 1777, 2018
Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Subject
31 JANUARY; RADIATION STRESSES; BIG-FLOOD; MODEL; WAVES
Keywords
Storm surge; The North Sea; Wave setup; Coupled wave-tide-surge model; Unstructured mesh; 1953 North Sea storm
Type
Article
Language
English
Document Type
Article
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