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Mapping Hurricane Ivan’s Impacts Gulf of Mexico Shoreline   PDF  Print  E-mail
Written by Glenn Letham (GISuser editor)  
Friday, 17 September 2004
USGS scientists have prepared maps showing the proportion of the ‘first line of defense’ that would be inundated by worst-case scenario storm surge associated with Categories 1 through 5 hurricanes. A data catalog complements the report and the IMS by offering downloadable data layers complete with FGDC compliant metadata.

In June USGS released a new assessment of shoreline change on the Gulf of Mexico that showed 61 percent of the Gulf Coast shoreline is eroding. Some areas are losing sand more rapidly than others and some areas are actually gaining sand. The assessment was designed to help coastal managers at all levels of government make more informed decisions.

"At the beginning of hurricane season, coastal residents recognize how important their beaches are, not just for enjoyment but also for protection from mighty coastal storms. Beach erosion is a chronic problem along most open-ocean shores of the United States," said Robert Morton, a USGS coastal geologist and the assessment's lead author. "As coastal populations grow and community infrastructures are threatened by erosion, there is increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present trends and rates of shoreline movement."

In a cooperative research program between USGS and NASA recently surveyed the shoreline using airborne laser mapping, providing for the first time detailed elevation maps of the shorelines ‘first line of defense.’ An example of the ‘first line of defense’ would be a sand dune protecting an ocean front cottage or road.

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/ivan/.

The storm-surge elevations (simulated by NOAA) represent the maximum surge that results along the open coast from hurricanes of a given category, approaching from different directions, and at different speeds. On Florida’s west coast barrier islands, the maximum surge will typically occur to the south of landfall under the eye wall and decreases in elevation with distance away from the eye wall.

“Where the storm surge exceeds the elevation of the dunes, currents will flow across the barrier islands potentially driving massive quantities of sand landward,” Sallenger said. “In some cases where barrier islands are low and narrow, the currents will carve new inlets like what happened in 2003 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina during Hurricane Isabel and this year on North Captiva Island, Fla., during Hurricane Charley.” A 44-page full-color report discussing historical shoreline change and coastal land loss along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is available for viewing and printing at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1043/

A data catalog complements the report and the IMS by offering downloadable data layers complete with FGDC compliant metadata. These data can be found at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1089/. Data generated by the project, including vector shorelines and transects.

U.S. Gulf of Mexico Shoreline Change Map Server

There are nine GIS data layers offered for each state in the Gulf of Mexico. These include: four vector shorelines, an offshore baseline used for generating shore-normal transects, transects for long- and short- term shoreline change rates, transect/shoreline intersection positions, and a vector layer to show the spatial extents of beach nourishment projects.

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