{"id":88357,"date":"2018-07-03T21:57:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T01:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=88357"},"modified":"2022-07-29T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T18:38:51","slug":"international-team-researchers-links-coastal-nuisance-flooding-special-type-slow-moving-ocean-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/international-team-researchers-links-coastal-nuisance-flooding-special-type-slow-moving-ocean-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"International Team of Researchers Links Coastal Nuisance Flooding to Special Type of Slow-moving Ocean Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international researchers has found a link between seasonal fluctuations in sea level to a long-time phenomenon \u2014 Rossby Waves. And this connection may lead to a new tool to help coastal communities, such as Miami, better anticipate and mitigate <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/nuisance-flooding.html\">\u201cnuisance flooding\u201d<\/a> impacts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUsing this information can help us develop an operational tool that gives home and business owners, as well as city managers, the much-needed time to prepare and mitigate the negative impacts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known for a long time that sea level is rising and that there are also important fluctuations happening on different time scales, including seasonal variations, which are the reason that nuisance flooding in cities like Miami typically occurs in late summer or early fall,\u201d said UCF coastal engineer Thomas Wahl, who was part of the research team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can predict high tide and low tide and we know what causes sea level to vary seasonally, but we found that in some years the seasonal fluctuations are much larger along the Gulf and U.S. southeast coasts than in others, causing more nuisance flooding and increasing flood risk from storm surges during the hurricane season. These unusually large seasonal fluctuations were poorly understood and Rossby Waves appear to be the missing piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-018-04898-y\">The team\u2019s findings are published in today\u2019s <em>Nature Communications<\/em> journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rossby Waves, sometimes referred to as planetary waves, result mainly from the rotation of the Earth and they travel very slowly; it can take them months or even years to cross the oceans. Tracking them, and knowing how they can escalate the risk of nuisance flooding, provides the opportunity to forecast periods when tides are dangerously high several months before it happens, Wahl said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing this information can help us develop an operational tool that gives home and business owners, as well as city managers, the much-needed time to prepare and mitigate the negative impacts,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nuisance flooding, or sometimes called sunny\u2013day flooding, occurs because of high tides, sea-level rise, land subsidence and the loss of natural barriers, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The federal agency found that this kind of flooding causes such public inconveniences as frequent road closures. It overwhelms storm drains and compromises infrastructure and this type of flooding \u201chas increased in the U.S. on average by about 50 percent since 20 years ago and 100 percent since 30 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miami is no stranger to this kind of flooding. Some years the city has faced more of it compared to others and until this team completed its study, the driving forces weren\u2019t well understood.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by Francisco Calafat of the National Oceanography Centre in England, includes Fredrik Lindsten from Uppsala University in Sweden, Joanne Williams from the National Oceanography Centre and Eleanor Frajka-Williams from the University of Southampton in England.<\/p>\n<p>Wahl joined UCF in 2017. He has a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Siegen in Germany and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/new-data-advanced-modeling-technique-suggest-extreme-coastal-sea-levels-likely\/\">studying sea-level rise and its impacts for years<\/a>, publishing papers and making presentations around the world. Other areas of his research include: sustainability of human-natural systems in coastal zones, coastal engineering design concepts, and climate adaptation and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/coastal.ucf.edu\">UCF\u2019s National Center for Integrated Coastal Research<\/a> which conducts research to support coastal communities. 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