Special Collection on North Atlantic Coastal Storm Hazards Including Hurricane Sandy

The special collection on North Atlantic Coastal Storm Hazards Including Hurricane Sandy is available in the ASCE Library at https://ascelibrary.org/page/jwped5/coastal_storm_hazards.

Hurricane Sandy prompted the U.S. government to conduct a large-scale study to quantify the coastal storm hazard from Virginia to Maine. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ study was called the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS). The primary goal of the modeling portion of this study was to capture the coastal storm hazard in high fidelity across the entire practical probability space. The study included joint-probability modeling of storm characteristics and optimal synthetic storm selection; the building of climate models for both synthetic hurricanes and historical extratropical storms; modeling of the wind and pressure fields, storm surge, tides, sea-level change, and waves; and computation of response statistics. This special collection presents papers that evolved out of the study results. The primary distinctions of this effort are that the modeling was intended to capture the entire probability space and the modeling was done at high fidelity. The modeling and joint-response statistics are available in a public data resource called the Coastal Hazards System (https://chs.erdc.dren.mil). Many companion and parallel studies were conducted by federal, state, and local agencies and universities with the intent of computing coastal storm risk and resilience and developing strategies to mitigate the hazards, and some of these studies are contained in this special collection.