Title Building a Forecast System for Near-Shore Disaster Prevention and Salvage
Dept Transportation Technology and Information Division
Year 2004
Month
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Summary Published in May 2004
IOT SERIAL No. 93-77-7110, 176pp.

  The sea exploration activities and coastal development projects in Taiwan have become attentive. In order to protect human lives and properties coastal engineering measures had to be taken to prevent disasters such as dangers of attack from high waves, surges and coastal erosion. Enough knowledge about marine meteorology is crucial. Therefore, development of an integrated coastal ocean modeling system is urgently needed.

  For years the Harbor & Marine Technology Center has been putting a lot of efforts in building on-line marine meteorological observation networks for the five commercial ports in Taiwan. Conventionally, these data are analyzed and applied by coastal engineers using analytical methods that cannot cover a complete temporal and spatial coverage. A few near-shore navigation systems, dubbed Blue Highway, have been established. However, necessary sea-state information to operate these systems is still not available. In addition, sea-state information for the management of coastal area is also insufficient. Therefore, It is now the right time to establish a forecast system for near-shore disaster prevention, recovery, and salvage in Taiwan.

  This year the focuses are to make plans and establish an island-wide observation network, and a local wind-wave forecast model, which can provide necessary information for the Blue-Highway. Particular plan is to collect observation data for wave, island-wide water depth and numerical grids, which are the preprocessing part of the forecast system. Storm surge forecast and flow forecast will be established soon. Then integrating these three process models in Geographic Information System for predicting the marine meteorology surround Taiwan will be the major objective for the project.
Post date 2005/08/15
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