Disciplines 101 Seminar #9

“Predicting Water Levels along the North Carolina Coast”

Rick Luettich (Coastal Engineering, UNC Institute of Marine Sciences)

“Compound Flood Hazards”

Antonia Sebastian (Hydrology, UNC Chapel Hill)

In today’s D101, Rick Luettich and Antonia Sebastian discussed how engineers and scientists hindcast and predict coastal water levels and compound flood events using numerical and statistical models.