Earth Data Science
Coastal Hazards and Risk Research: Applications of the ADCIRC Storm Surge and Wind-wave Model
Description
RENCI collaborates with Rick Luettich, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and the DHS-funded Coastal Resilience Center, to support, advance, and extend research and applications of the ADCIRC storm surge and wind-wave model. Applications include probabilistic forecasting of storm surge levels during hurricanes, using AI and machine learning methods to simulate and predict hurricane tracks, and performance analysis and code tuning of ADCIRC software. ADCIRC is the core computational model in the ADCIRC Surge Guidance System (ASGS), a real-time software system that computes high-resolution coastal flooding predictions during tropical storms and hurricanes. The work was awarded a 2012 DHS Impact Award, a 2013 HPC Innovation Excellence Award, and a 2016 HPC Impact Award at the SC16 conference. ADCIRC users include the U.S. Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA, and NOAA, several consulting firms, and hundreds of academic researchers worldwide.
RENCI's Role
Over the past eight years, RENCI has maintained automated, dedicated, and on-demand access for ASGS on RENCI supercomputers, provisioned support and maintenance of the primary web-based access point (http://nc-cera.renci.org), and accelerated the performance and development of ADCIRC code. Brian Blanton and Rick Luettich lead this activity.