Recommendations

Official Recommendations from Year 1 Activities

Project Name: Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON) Enhancements
Scope: Integration of historical TCOON datasets into NOAA's operational database.
Schedule: 3 years
Stakeholders: NOAA, GLO, TWDB, TAMUCC, TCOON, USGS"
Explanation of Benefits: Significantly increase accuracy of coastal flood modeling and forecasting.

Project Name: Priority Areas along the Texas coast for Bathymetry Data Acquisition
Scope: Collecting bathymetry data in areas with a high priority need to enhance the performance of various modeling efforts
Schedule: Varies
Estimated Budget: Varies depending on the water type, size of project, and the data collection methodology
Stakeholders: TWDB, NOAA, USGS, and others (varies)
Explanation of Benefits: Significantly increase accuracy of coastal flood modeling and forecasting.

Potential Recommendations (under review)

Nearshore wave data inventory and gap analysis
Continued inventory and evaluation of data used to support flood planning, modeling, and mapping along the Texas gulf coast
Further gap analyses for data use cases
Identify best practices for data quality and format
Identify best practices for digital data repositories and API infrastructure
Further partnerships with TDIS and GLO’s Combined River Basin Flood
Studies program
Development of the data inventory web interface
Maintaining an active and updated data inventory web interface
Augment existing measurement networks to include under-sampled locations
Advance HEC-RAS distributed-memory parallelization to facilitate computationally intensive hydraulic model simulations
Advance the use of the joint probability method for compound flood hazard assessment in the Texas coastal region
Develop guidelines for installing and evaluating nature-based features along the Texas coast for efficiency in coastal flood risk reduction.
Develop rapid predictions of flooding hazards for Texas decision-making and emergency response
Development of bibliography and database of flood modeling studies and datasets
Enhance wave models and association data collections for better representation of wave transformation overland
Develop an automation tool for high-resolution Texas topographic and bathymetric data processing
Evaluation of the analysis of period of record for calibration (AORC) data across Texas for potential flood hazard analysis uses
Advance AI/ML technique for compound flood modeling
Urban storm water model coupling with flood hazard hydrodynamic model and test-bed evaluation of the integrated model application for Texas urbanized coastal watersheds
Development of a high-resolution statewide parametric tropical cyclone rainfall generator
Support research on erosion and its impact on storm surge
Support a systematic study to quantify sensitivities of model results to uncertainties in wind forcing, bathymetry, and bottom friction
Address the lack of inland flooding models that include wind and wave stresses via a coordinated research effort to quantify the physics of wind-driven flows in shallow flooding
Development of a centralized subsidence monitoring dashboard
Establishment of a Texas Flood Coordination Office
Development of an Online Learning Center for Flood Related Content
Installation of a testing platform in a coastal environment to evaluate water monitoring equipment
Develop a near-shore wave data collection network along the Texas Coast
Standardized shapefile submission for flood-related projects
Provide funding to collect and process C-CAP High-Resolution 1-m land cover data for the entire Texas coast and provide guidelines on implanting the datasets into Texas coastal flood modeling systems