Training event
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Coastal flood modelling and extremes
Organizer(s)
JBA Consulting
Format
In person
Venue
JBA Haywards Heath Office
Date
This one day course provides delegates with an introduction to the processes that influence sea level, including tides, storm surges and waves. The course also provides an introduction to the methods available for estimating extreme sea levels and wave heights and producing design tidal-graphs for flood inundation modelling. Finally, the course introduces the approaches available for estimating wave overtopping discharges.
Course outcomes:
- Have a fuller appreciation of the processes that lead to coastal flood risk and the manner in which these processes interact
- Understand the complexities involved in estimating extreme sea level and wave heights and be able to carry out basic calculations
- Gain the necessary background required to review extreme sea level and wave height estimates
Topics covered:
Coastal processes
- Astronomical tides
- Storm surges
- Wave generation, propagation and transformation
- Interaction of tides, surges and waves
- Sources of data available
Wave overtopping discharges
- Wave run-up and overtopping of flood defences
- Introduction to the European Overtopping Manual (Eurotop) techniques
Extreme sea level analysis
- Analysis of gauge data
- Statistical estimation of extreme sea levels (including GEV and joint probability approaches)
- Estimation of wave characteristics
- Dependence of extreme storm surge and wave events
- Climate change guidance