University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Some nice videos showing the breach of the Medmerry Managed Realignment Scheme:
http://www.takeoneproductions.co.uk/takeonestreaming/medmerry/index.html
Animation of storm surge of Super Typhoon Haiyan making landfall:
The model predicts maximum surge levels exceeding 5 metres near Tacloban City. The peak surge occurs some time after the cyclone has made landfall. At this point, the winds near Tacloban City change direction from easterly to southeasterly, and the cyclone starts pushing water into San Pedro and San Pablo Bay (i.e. the northwesterly part of Leyte Gulf).
Over the next few decades climate change induced sea level rise and subsidence due to ground water pumping is expected to affect a greater proportion of people living in low lying regions. Coupled with economic growth and increasing populations in coastal cities this trend will result in higher annual losses from flooding.
A recent Nature Climate Change article estimates that the average annual losses from flooding in the world’s largest coastal cities could rise from about $6 billion per year in 2005 to over $1 trillion per year by 2050. Even if investments are made to maintain flood probabilities at current levels, subsidence and sea level rise alone will increase annual losses to around $63 billion by 2050.
The above figure, from the article, shows the 20 cities where Average Annual Losses (AAL) increase the most (in relative terms in 2050 compared with 2005) if adaptive measures are taken…
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As part of the applied sediment dynamics course I co-ordinate we do a series of measurements on this Bramble Bank each year, which is home to Britain’s strangest cricket match:
Very interesting new database:
http://www.lsu.edu/departments/gold/2012/06/storm_surge_research.shtml
Fascinating old documentary on tides:
Later in the year I will be writing a encyclopaedia entry on tides.
Check out these documentary. My research on sea level rise is featured around the 20 minute mark.
I will also be giving a invited talk at this conference: http://www.york.ac.uk/conferences/allatsea/index.html. Come along.
I’ll be giving an invited talk at this conference in Sep 2013: http://www.uni-siegen.de/evan2013/. Should be good!
Professor Ivan Haigh 