{"id":118237,"date":"2021-03-05T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=118237"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:55:42","slug":"coastal-changes-worsen-nuisance-flooding-on-many-u-s-shorelines-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/coastal-changes-worsen-nuisance-flooding-on-many-u-s-shorelines-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Changes Worsen Nuisance Flooding on Many U.S. Shorelines, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nuisance flooding has increased on U.S. coasts in recent decades due to sea level rise, and new research co-authored by the University of Central Florida uncovered an additional reason for its added frequency.<\/p>\n<p>In a study appearing today in the journal <em>Science Advances<\/em>, researchers show that higher local tide ranges, most likely from human alterations to coastal areas and estuaries, has increased the number of nuisance flooding days in many coastal locations in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Coastal nuisance flooding is considered to be minor flooding from the seas that causes problems such as flooded roads and overloaded stormwater systems, which can be major inconveniences for people and provide habitat for bacteria and mosquitoes.<\/p>\n<p>Changes to local tide range often occur in coastal areas and estuaries when channels are dredged, land is reclaimed, development occurs, or river flows change. This can cause tide ranges, defined as the height difference between high tide and low tide, to increase in some areas and decrease in others.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that out of the 40 U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tidal gauge locations used in the study that dot the continental U.S. coastlines, nearly half had more nuisance flooding days because of higher local tide ranges.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_118241\" style=\"max-width: 200px;\" class=\"figure float-right\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"figure-img  img-fluid w-100 wp-image-118241 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Wahl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-341x512.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-240x360.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"figure-img  img-fluid w-100 wp-image-118241 size-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20200%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Thomas Wahl\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20200%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-341x512.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-240x360.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web.jpg 800w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/thomas_wahl_for_web-200x300.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Thomas Wahl, an assistant professor in UCF\u2019s Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, co-authored the study examining the effects of tidal changes on nuisance flooding along U.S. coasts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first time that the effects of tidal changes on nuisance flooding were quantified, and the approach is very robust as it is based purely on observational data and covers the entire coastline of the U.S. mainland,\u201d says study co-author Thomas Wahl, an assistant professor in UCF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cece.ucf.edu\/\">Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers performed the study by using tidal gauge data at 40 locations along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts spanning at least 70 years of data. They compared water levels at the locations based on two different scenarios \u2013 one in which tidal range never changed and one where it did.<\/p>\n<p>This allowed them to see how often nuisance floods occurred or were prevented over time because of tidal changes.<\/p>\n<p>They found that nuisance flooding increased because of tidal changes in about half the locations, decreased in a fourth of the locations, and was not changed in the remaining quarter of locations.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in 2019, Cedar Key, Florida, received about 23 additional nuisance flooding days because of increased tidal range, while Washington, D.C., had about 42 fewer due to decreased tidal range.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing how many nuisance flooding events occurred in the past and are happening today simply because of tidal changes should be motivation for us to keep alterations to sensitive estuarine systems at a minimum as to not further exacerbate the problem, which we already face because of sea level rise,\u201d Wahl says. &nbsp;\u201cWe should at least be aware of these potentially negative impacts in the planning phase of alteration projects, and it might even be possible to reverse some of the negative impacts from past decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sida Li is the study\u2019s lead author and a visiting student in UCF\u2019s Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering and the <a href=\"https:\/\/coastal.ucf.edu\/\">National Center for Integrated Coastal Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Li says that while a few individual instances of minor flooding events do not cause too many impacts, the cumulative impacts of frequent events can become very large.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHence, understanding what drives the changes in nuisance flooding is very important,\u201d Li says.<\/p>\n<p>The work was funded by the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Wahl earned his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Siegen, Germany, and joined UCF\u2019s Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, part of UCF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/college\/engineering-computer-science\/\">College of Engineering and Computer Science<\/a>, in 2017. He is also a member of UCF\u2019s&nbsp;National Center for Integrated Coastal Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuisance flooding causes problems such as submerged roads and overloaded stormwater systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":118239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,23,24],"tags":[973,18170,17199],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-118237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-research","category-science-technology","tag-college-of-engineering-and-computer-science","tag-environmental-and-construction-engineering","tag-ucf-coastal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coastal Changes Worsen Nuisance Flooding on Many U.S. Shorelines, Study Finds | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nuisance flooding causes problems such as submerged roads and overloaded stormwater systems.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/coastal-changes-worsen-nuisance-flooding-on-many-u-s-shorelines-study-finds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coastal Changes Worsen Nuisance Flooding on Many U.S. Shorelines, Study Finds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nuisance flooding causes problems such as submerged roads and overloaded stormwater systems.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/coastal-changes-worsen-nuisance-flooding-on-many-u-s-shorelines-study-finds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-05T19:11:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-09T16:55:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/03\/nuisance_flooding_for_web.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"UCF Today\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/coastal-changes-worsen-nuisance-flooding-on-many-u-s-shorelines-study-finds\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/coastal-changes-worsen-nuisance-flooding-on-many-u-s-shorelines-study-finds\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"UCF Today\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1aebb3df3a7ab485359dde7d3c88ef4e\"},\"headline\":\"Coastal Changes Worsen Nuisance Flooding on Many U.S. Shorelines, Study Finds\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-05T19:11:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-09T16:55:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/coastal-changes-worsen-nuisance-flooding-on-many-u-s-shorelines-study-finds\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":658,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/coastal-changes-worsen-nuisance-flooding-on-many-u-s-shorelines-study-finds\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2021\\\/03\\\/nuisance_flooding_for_web.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"College of Engineering and Computer Science\",\"Environmental and Construction Engineering\",\"UCF Coastal\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; 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