Monitoring Storm Tide and Flooding from Hurricane Sandy along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, October 2012 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496081742)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) deployed a temporary monitoring network of water-level and barometric pressure sensors at 224 locations along the Atlantic coast from Virginia to Maine to continuously record the timing, areal extent, and magnitude of hurricane storm tide and coastal flooding generated by Hurricane Sandy (fig. 1). These records were greatly supplemented by an extensive post-flood high-water mark (HWM) flagging and surveying campaign from November to December 2012 involving more than 950 HWMs. Both efforts were undertaken as part of a coor dinated federal emergency response as outlined by the Stafford Act under a directed mission assignment by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Author: U. S. Department of the Interior
ISBN-10: 1496081749
ISBN-13: 9781496081742
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2014
Pages: 46
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.10d