National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

Ocean Sciences Meeting 

San Diego, CA, February 16-21, 2020 

Oral presentations


The Coastal Coupling Community of Practice: An Interagency Collaboration Working Toward Continental-scale Modeling in the Coastal Transition Zone - Cayla Dean, NOAA CO-OPS

A flexible infrastructure for coastal ocean and inland hydrology models coupling - Saeed Moghimi, NOAA OCS

Characterizing Compound Coastal-Riverine Behavior along the U.S. East Coast using a Coupled Hydrologic-Hydrodynamic Model - Roham Bakhtyar (presented by Graeme Aggett, Lynker Technologies)

Coupled Hydrological-Hydrodynamic Large-Scale Simulation - Wei Huang, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Effect of Model Setup Complexity on Hydraulic Simulations in Low-Gradient Watersheds: Application in the Vermilion River Basin, South Louisiana - Emad Habib (presented by Ehab Meselhe, Tulane University)

Integrating WRF Hydro into the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) Modeling System: Application to Hurricane Florence (2018) - John Warner, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole

Modeling Compound Flooding from Hurricane Florence Using ADCIRC - Brian Blanton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Integrated Coastal Urban Flood Modeling, Applications, Lessons Learned, Future Directions - Chris Massey, US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory 

Networking Solutions to Data-Model Coupling at the Land-Sea Interface - Allison Myers-Pigg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory


Poster presentations


Analysis and Evaluation of Flooding Predictions in the Transition Zone Using a State of the Art Coupled Hydrologic/Hydrodynamic Modeling System - Pagagiotis Velissariou (presented by Graeme Aggett, Lynker Technologies)

Applying a Multi-Scale Decoupled Modeling Approach to Evaluation of New Orleans Flood Defenses - Hydel Collins, US Army Corps of Engineers

Influence of Forcing Conditions on Total Water Level Prediction and Spatiotemporal Patterns in Delaware Bay, USA - David Munoz, University of Alabama

Precipitation Impacts on Lake Ice and Water Temperature in the North American Great Lakes - Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome, University of Michigan Ann Arbor Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research

Real-Time Total Water Forecasts for the National Capital Region and the Chesapeake Bay - Celso Ferreira, George Mason University

Simulating Coupled Surge and River Flow and its Influence on Compound Inundation in an Idealized Test Case - Youcan Feng (presented by Brian Blanton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

The Delta-X Framework: A Reality Check for Hydrodynamic, Sediment Transport and Ecogeomorphic Models - Marc Simard, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Tampa Bay Coastal Ocean Model Nowcast/Forecast System with Ecological Applications - Jing Chen, University of South Florida

Wave-Driven Effects and Geomorphic Controls on Bay-Shelf Exchange in a Back-Barrier Estuary - Alfredo Aretxabaleta, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole