Synthetic storm-driven flood-inundation grids for coastal communities along the Delaware Bay and adjacent to the South Dennis tide gage from North Cape May to Delmont, NJ

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Digital flood-inundation maps for coastal communities within Cape May County in New Jersey were created by water surfaces generated by an Advanced Circulation hydrodynamic (ADCIRC) and Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) model from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region II coastal analysis and mapping study (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2014). Six synthetic modeled tropical storm events from a library of 159 events were selected based on parameters including landfall location or closest approach location, maximum wind speed, central pressure, and radii of winds. Two storm events were selected for the tide gage providing two "scenarios" and accompanying inundation-map libraries. The contents of this data release support the following publication: Suro, T.P., Niemoczynski, M.J., Boetsma, A.C., and Niemoczynski, L.M., 2023, Moderate flood level scenarios: synthetic storm-driven flood-inundation maps for coastal communities in 10 New Jersey counties: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5005, 64 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20235005. The landing page on which this and 24 other storm scenarios reside is: Niemoczynski, L.M., Niemoczynski, M.J., Boetsma, A.C., and Suro, T.P., 2023, Synthetic storm-driven flood-inundation grids for coastal communities in 10 New Jersey counties: U.S Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RVF9P8. References cited: Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2014, FEMA Region II Coastal Analysis and Mapping Study, accessed November 2, 2018, at http://www.region2coastal.com/resources/about-the-coastal-flood-study/

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Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.62436760d34e22d73748d417.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RVF9P8

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  • tide-gages
  • digital-maps
  • flood-inundation-maps
  • oceans
  • cape-may-county
  • new-jersey-coastal
  • usgs-62436760d34e22d73748d417
  • floods

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