Wave Attenuation by Vegetation: Model Implementation and Validation Study
Wave–vegetation interaction is implemented in the WAVEWATCH III (WW3) model. The vegetation sink term followed the early formulations of Dalrymple et al. (Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 1984, 110, 67–79), which focused on monochromatic waves and vegetation approximated as...
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| author | Ali Abdolali Ali Abdolali Ali Abdolali Tyler J. Hesser Mary Anderson Bryant Aron Roland Arslaan Khalid Jane Smith Celso Ferreira Avichal Mehra Mathieu Dutour Sikiric |
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| description | Wave–vegetation interaction is implemented in the WAVEWATCH III (WW3) model. The vegetation sink term followed the early formulations of Dalrymple et al. (Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 1984, 110, 67–79), which focused on monochromatic waves and vegetation approximated as an array of rigid, vertical cylinders, and was later expanded by Mendez and Losada (Coastal Engineering, 2004, 51, 103–118) for random wave transformations over mildly sloping vegetation fields under breaking and nonbreaking conditions assuming a Rayleigh distribution of wave heights. First, validation is carried out for 63 laboratory cases (Anderson and Smith, 2014) with homogeneous vegetation fields for single and double-peak wave spectra. Then, a field case application is conducted to assess the wave attenuation in a wetland environment with spatially variable vegetation fields during stormy conditions. The case study uses data collected at the Magothy Bay located in the Chesapeake Bay, United States, during Hurricanes Jose and Maria in 2017. The domain decomposition parallelization and the implicit scheme have been used for the simulations to efficiently resolve complex shorelines and high-gradient wave zones, incorporating dominant physics in the complicated coastal zone, including wave breaking, wave–current interaction, bottom friction and scattering, wave–vegetation interaction, and nonlinearity (Abdolali et al., 2020). The lab validation and field application demonstrate that WW3 is an effective tool for evaluating the capacity of wetland natural or nature-based features to attenuate wave energy to achieve coastal flood risk reduction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-60d7f4c4cec646a6b99e3a71709c552c2022-12-22T00:33:23ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Built Environment2297-33622022-07-01810.3389/fbuil.2022.891612891612Wave Attenuation by Vegetation: Model Implementation and Validation StudyAli Abdolali0Ali Abdolali1Ali Abdolali2Tyler J. Hesser3Mary Anderson Bryant4Aron Roland5Arslaan Khalid6Jane Smith7Celso Ferreira8Avichal Mehra9Mathieu Dutour Sikiric10NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), College Park, MD, United StatesI.M. Systems Group, Inc. (IMSG), Rockville, MD, United StatesUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD, United StatesUS Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United StatesUS Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United StatesBGS IT & E, Darmstadt, GermanyCivil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United StatesUS Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United StatesCivil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United StatesNWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), College Park, MD, United StatesLaboratory for Physic of the Sea and Chemistry of Water Systems, Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, CroatiaWave–vegetation interaction is implemented in the WAVEWATCH III (WW3) model. The vegetation sink term followed the early formulations of Dalrymple et al. (Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 1984, 110, 67–79), which focused on monochromatic waves and vegetation approximated as an array of rigid, vertical cylinders, and was later expanded by Mendez and Losada (Coastal Engineering, 2004, 51, 103–118) for random wave transformations over mildly sloping vegetation fields under breaking and nonbreaking conditions assuming a Rayleigh distribution of wave heights. First, validation is carried out for 63 laboratory cases (Anderson and Smith, 2014) with homogeneous vegetation fields for single and double-peak wave spectra. Then, a field case application is conducted to assess the wave attenuation in a wetland environment with spatially variable vegetation fields during stormy conditions. The case study uses data collected at the Magothy Bay located in the Chesapeake Bay, United States, during Hurricanes Jose and Maria in 2017. The domain decomposition parallelization and the implicit scheme have been used for the simulations to efficiently resolve complex shorelines and high-gradient wave zones, incorporating dominant physics in the complicated coastal zone, including wave breaking, wave–current interaction, bottom friction and scattering, wave–vegetation interaction, and nonlinearity (Abdolali et al., 2020). The lab validation and field application demonstrate that WW3 is an effective tool for evaluating the capacity of wetland natural or nature-based features to attenuate wave energy to achieve coastal flood risk reduction.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2022.891612/fullwave–vegetation interactionspectral wave model WAVEWATCH IIIwetland hydrodynamicshurricanemarshland |
| spellingShingle | Ali Abdolali Ali Abdolali Ali Abdolali Tyler J. Hesser Mary Anderson Bryant Aron Roland Arslaan Khalid Jane Smith Celso Ferreira Avichal Mehra Mathieu Dutour Sikiric Wave Attenuation by Vegetation: Model Implementation and Validation Study Frontiers in Built Environment wave–vegetation interaction spectral wave model WAVEWATCH III wetland hydrodynamics hurricane marshland |
| title | Wave Attenuation by Vegetation: Model Implementation and Validation Study |
| title_full | Wave Attenuation by Vegetation: Model Implementation and Validation Study |
| title_fullStr | Wave Attenuation by Vegetation: Model Implementation and Validation Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wave Attenuation by Vegetation: Model Implementation and Validation Study |
| title_short | Wave Attenuation by Vegetation: Model Implementation and Validation Study |
| title_sort | wave attenuation by vegetation model implementation and validation study |
| topic | wave–vegetation interaction spectral wave model WAVEWATCH III wetland hydrodynamics hurricane marshland |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2022.891612/full |
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