The Big Flood: North Sea storm surge

McRobie, Allan; Spencer, Tom; Gerritsen, H.

doi:10.1098/rsta.2005.1567

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“…In areas where marine flooding can extend in large, low-lying areas such as a typical main flood in the North Sea (see e.g. McRobie et al 2005;Dawson et al 2009), this can be substituted by the area of the flood extension.…”

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A multi-component flood risk assessment in the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean)

2017

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Coastal regions are the areas most threatened by natural hazards, with floods being the most frequent and significant threat in terms of their induced impacts, and therefore, any management scheme requires their evaluation. In coastal areas, flooding is a hazard associated with various processes acting at different scales: coastal storms, flash floods, and sea level rise (SLR). In order to address the problem as a whole, this study presents a methodology to undertake a preliminary integrated risk assessment that determines the magnitude of the different flood processes (flash flood, marine storm, SLR) and their associated consequences, taking into account their temporal and spatial scales. The risk is quantified using specific indicators to assess the magnitude of the hazard (for each component) and the consequences in a common scale. This allows for a robust comparison of the spatial risk distribution along the coast in order to identify both the areas at greatest risk and the risk components that have the greatest impact. This methodology is applied on the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean, Spain), which can be considered representative of developed areas of the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The results obtained characterise this coastline as an area of relatively low overall risk, although some hot spots have been identified with high-risk values, with flash flooding being the principal risk process.

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A multi-component flood risk assessment in the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean)

2017

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“…North Sea floods which killed 1836 people in the Netherlands, 307 in the UK and 17 in Belgium [3][4][5] and floods on the German Bight in 1962 when more than 300 people lost their lives [6,7]. In comparison with understanding at that time, coastal planners now benefit from a better understanding of the nature and degrees of exposure to flooding due to advances in coastal modelling e.g., [8].…”

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Coastal Flooding in the Solent: An Integrated Analysis of Defences and Inundation

Wadey

Nicholls

Hutton

2012

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This paper demonstrates a methodology for integrating existing models for the rapid simulation of coastal flood events across a large and varied case study area on the UK south coast. Following validation against observations from real coastal floods, synthetic events driven by realistic waves and water levels and the full range of failure mechanisms were modelled for a range of loadings to generate peak flood water depths and an overview of impacts across this spectrum of possible floods. Overtopping is relatively important compared to breaching as coastal floodplains are small. This modelling system supports multiple potential applications, such as planning flood warnings, coastal defence upgrade, and land use, including under sea-level rise. The concepts drawn from this study are transferable to similar coastal regions.

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“…The region has a long history of significant coastal flooding (Lamb, 1991). The disastrous storm surge events in 1953 (UK and Dutch coastline) and 1962 (German coastline) in particular, led to the construction of modern coastal protection measures and flood warning systems along major parts of the coastline (e.g., McRobie et al, 2005;Munich Re, 2012). Much of the North Sea coastline is now heavily defended and contains major flood defence structures (e.g.…”

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Observed mean sea level changes around the North Sea coastline from 1800 to present

Wahl¹,

Haigh²,

Woodworth³

et al. 2013

Earth-Science Reviews

152

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This paper assesses historic changes in mean sea level around the coastline of the North Sea, one of the most densely populated coasts in the world. Typically, such analyses have been conducted at a national level, and detailed geographically wider analyses have not been undertaken for about 20 years. We analyse long records (up to 200 years) from 30 tide gauge sites, which are reasonably uniformly distributed along the coastline, and: (1) calculate relative sea level trends; (2) examine the inter-annual and decadal variations; (3) estimate regional geocentric (sometimes also referred to as 'absolute') sea level rise throughout the 20 th century; and (4)

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The Big Flood: North Sea storm surge

Cited by 68 publications

References 22 publications

A multi-component flood risk assessment in the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean)

A multi-component flood risk assessment in the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean)

Coastal Flooding in the Solent: An Integrated Analysis of Defences and Inundation

Observed mean sea level changes around the North Sea coastline from 1800 to present

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