# Presentation: 937944

## Coastal Process ModelingUS Army Corps of Engineers

**Jeff Hanson**
**Research Oceanographer**
**MORPHOS Program Manager**
**US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)**
**Field Research Facility (FRF) - Duck, NC**

**NOAA NWS Ocean Modeling Workshop, NCEP, 14-15 January 2008**

## Field Research Facility

**Field Research Facility**

- Established in 1977 to Advance Coastal Knowledge
- Through Research and Discovery

**Notes:**
CHL one of 5 ERDC labs in Vicksburg 
Support both army and civilian groups over a wide variety of applications
My station FRF  - coastal processes and observations  (web cam photos)
Handouts

## MORPHOS Program 

**Advancing Coastal Process Research, Modeling and Risk Assessment**** **

- MISSION:
- Develop, verify and apply a physics based coastal and estuarine simulation and prediction capability with emphasis on storm-driven events

**2004**

**2005**

## MORPHOS Program Elements

**MORPHOS Program Elements**

**  ****Coastal Modeling System**

**Research and Development**

## Morphos Program Team

**Notes:**
To fulfill our mission, MORPHOS has assembled a recognized team of experts spanning various Government agencies, academia and private industry.  
Many members of this team have shared duel roles on the Hurricane Katrina Interagency Task Force and the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration program.

## Need: Dynamic, 2-Way 

**Coastal Response Modeling**

**Need: Dynamic, 2-Way **
**Model Coupling**

**Notes:**
 As a result MORPHOS was born with a mission to...
 Initial focus – beach response
 Post-Katrina Focus – Access coastal hazards and risk for a wide variety of impacts including erosion, flood and inundation, levy overtopping, and wetlands destruction

## North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program

**North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program**

## Model Validation Test Bed:IOOS Partnership

**Concept Diagram**

**Notes:**
Explain concept

## Model Validation Test Bed:IOOS Partnership

**Concept Diagram**

- Observation IOOS Linkage

**Notes:**
Explain concept

## Model Validation Test Bed:IOOS Partnership

**Concept Diagram**

- Modeling IOOS Linkage

- Observation IOOS Linkage

**Notes:**
Explain concept

## FRF 

**Modeling:**
**SWAN**
**Nearshore**
**Waves**

**Notes:**
 As a result MORPHOS was born with a mission to...
 Initial focus – beach response
 Post-Katrina Focus – Access coastal hazards and risk for a wide variety of impacts including erosion, flood and inundation, levy overtopping, and wetlands destruction

## FRF Model

**FRF Model**
**Validation**
**Page:**
**Integration **
**of Coastal**
**Observations**

**Notes:**
 As a result MORPHOS was born with a mission to...
 Initial focus – beach response
 Post-Katrina Focus – Access coastal hazards and risk for a wide variety of impacts including erosion, flood and inundation, levy overtopping, and wetlands destruction

## Tropical Storm Noel SWAN Model Validation

**Notes:**
 As a result MORPHOS was born with a mission to...
 Initial focus – beach response
 Post-Katrina Focus – Access coastal hazards and risk for a wide variety of impacts including erosion, flood and inundation, levy overtopping, and wetlands destruction

## Wave Model Evaluation and Diagnostics System (WaveMEDS)

- Statistics are performed on any measured attribute
- Error Metrics include	- RMS Error	- Bias
-  Scatter Index
-  Circular Correlation and Bias (directions)

**WaveMEDS**

**Notes:**
Benchmarking Module Approach

## Coastal ModelingCollaboration Opportunities

** ****Historical Storm Archive- track parameters**
** ****Risk assessment technology**
** ****Computational grid development – high res topo/bathy**
** ****High-fidelity model technology advances**
** ****Dynamic model coupling – capture the physics**
** ****Collection of critical data sets**
** ****Quantitative model test and evaluation -Test Bed**

**USACE Mission Critical Needs:**

## Thank you...

**Thank you...**