The action of the tidal cycle and storm-driven surge impacts can combine to generate substantial flooding and inundation in low lying coastal regions. Ocean Tides and Storm-Surge: Tidal dynamics are important contributions to extreme events and global climate processes, responsible for significant sea surface height fluctuations in nearshore regions as well as mixing processes in deep oceans and coastal estuaries.

These new simulation capabilities have been enabled by incorporating various new functionality in E3SM, including:

This dynamic, two-way coupling across model components enables the behavior of compounding events to be captured - allowing the team to analyze how rivers, oceans and land-surface processes contribute to storm-surge, flooding and inundation events, and to assess associated risks to coastal infrastructure. Tropical Cyclones, to be simulated at very high resolution over short time scales, with nonlinear feedbacks and interplays between ocean, river and land-surface physics explicitly represented. These new capabilities allow the impact of extreme events, including e.g. Within this collaborative effort, the ESMD team has focused on the development of a new extreme storm and weather impacts configuration for the ocean, land-surface and river components of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM, Fig. This work continues progress toward future E3SM configurations designed to simulate and assess impacts and changes to the coastal environment more broadly. In both its aims and methodologies, the ICoM project is a unique opportunity to enhance and extend E3SM capabilities to answer high-impact scientific questions relevant to US coastal communities and infrastructure. Department of Energy (DOE) program areas, including the Earth System Model Development (ESMD), Regional and Global Model Analysis (RGMA) and Multi-Sector Dynamics (MSD) portfolios. ICoM is a multi-institutional endeavor supported by numerous U.S. The Integrated Coastal Modeling ( ICoM ) project is an E3SM ecosystem activity that aims to deliver a robust predictive understanding of coastal evolution, accounting for complex, multi-scale interactions among physical, environmental, and human systems.īy leveraging an integrated approach that combines multiple modeling tools and simulations across scales the impact of both extreme events and long-term changes in human and natural coastal systems is appraised.

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