Understanding Comprehensive Flood Risk with NOAA Data

Creators

Kate Quigley, NOS OCMFollow

Description

The Beyond Floods app features a flood outlook score and detailed reports for each individual property. This score is an abstraction of more than 25 factors related to real estate, social perception, flood insurance, flood mitigation and losses, infrastructure, and geomorphology. Syndeste used data from NOAA’s digital elevation models and the New York City Panel on Climate Change sea level rise projections that NOAA published in its GeoPlatform for this effort. The Coastal Flood Loss Atlas (developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, derived from NOAA SLOSH models) and NOAA’s New York City 2050 flood risk scenario floodplains information were also used to further improve Beyond Floods’ flood outlook score and risk advisory capabilities.

URL

https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/stories/beyond-floods.html

Start Year

2024

End Year

2024

Published Year

2024

Ongoing

1

Large Marine Ecosystem Area

Gulf of California

Ocean

Pacific

Sea

American Mediterranean Sea

Country

USA

Case Product Name

Beyond Floods

Product Type

Service

Product Format

Data Service

Product URI

https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slr.html

Publisher

NOAA

Publisher City

Washington. D.C.

Publisher Country

United States

Publisher State

District of Columbia

Publisher/Distributor URL

https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/stories/beyond-floods.html

Data Source

NOAA Digital Coast

Data Source URL

https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slr.html

Primary Use

Research, Weather/Climate, Operations

User Type

Research, Education, Public Safety/Law Enforcement, Weather/Climate, Environmental

Data Type

Private Individual, Government Professional, Industry Professional, NGO/Non-Profit

OOS Variable

Surface currents

Observation Type

Physics

Economic Sectors Benefitting

Agriculture,Forestry, Fishing

Industries Benefitting

Waste water treatment

Data Services Used

NOAA Digital Coast

Ecosystem Benefits, Non-human

Direct, in-situ and outdoor interactions with living systems that depend on presence in the environmental setting, Spiritual, symbolic and other interactions with natural environment, Other biotic characteristics that have a non-use value

Ecosystem Benefits, Human

The wealth of accurate, standardized scientific data provided by NOAA allows Syndeste to focus on the post-processing and information simplification. The federal government’s digital elevation models, sea level rise projections, Coastal Flood Loss Atlas, and future floodplains inform climate change risk, which in turn affects the flood outlook score of individual properties. The resulting tool provides current and prospective property owners with an intuitive representation of their comprehensive flood risk, valuable for anyone buying or selling property, as well as those who want to better understand their risk.

Type of Ecosystem Service

Regulation and Maintenance Services

Ecosystem Regulation/Maintenance Services

Regulation of the chemical condition of salt waters by living processes

Ecosytem Cultural Services

The wealth of accurate, standardized scientific data provided by NOAA allows Syndeste to focus on the post-processing and information simplification. The federal government’s digital elevation models, sea level rise projections, Coastal Flood Loss Atlas, and future floodplains inform climate change risk, which in turn affects the flood outlook score of individual properties. The resulting tool provides current and prospective property owners with an intuitive representation of their comprehensive flood risk, valuable for anyone buying or selling property, as well as those who want to better understand their risk.

Ecosystem Provisioning Services

The wealth of accurate, standardized scientific data provided by NOAA allows Syndeste to focus on the post-processing and information simplification. The federal government’s digital elevation models, sea level rise projections, Coastal Flood Loss Atlas, and future floodplains inform climate change risk, which in turn affects the flood outlook score of individual properties. The resulting tool provides current and prospective property owners with an intuitive representation of their comprehensive flood risk, valuable for anyone buying or selling property, as well as those who want to better understand their risk.

Benefits Documented by Use?

The wealth of accurate, standardized scientific data provided by NOAA allows Syndeste to focus on the post-processing and information simplification. The federal government’s digital elevation models, sea level rise projections, Coastal Flood Loss Atlas, and future floodplains inform climate change risk, which in turn affects the flood outlook score of individual properties. The resulting tool provides current and prospective property owners with an intuitive representation of their comprehensive flood risk, valuable for anyone buying or selling property, as well as those who want to better understand their risk.

Benefits Quantified?

Yes

Monetary Value of Benefits

Yes

Recommended Citation

Quigley, Kate (2022) "Understanding Comprehensive Flood Risk with NOAA Data," Benefits of Ocean Observing Catalog (BOOC): Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 40.
Available at: https://cbe.miis.edu/booc/vol2/iss1/40

Document Type

Article