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State of Science, Gap Analysis, and Prioritization for Southeastern United States Water-Quality Impacts from Coastal Storms—Fiscal Year 2023 Program Report to the Water Resources Mission Area from the Water Availability Impacts of Extreme Events Program—Hurricanes

Open-File Report 2024-1048
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20241048

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Abstract

Tropical cyclones (coastal storm events that include tropical depressions, tropical storms, and hurricanes) cause landscape-scale disturbances that can lead to impaired water quality and thus reduce water availability for use. Stakeholders and scientists at local and national scales have illustrated a need for understanding these risks to water quality. A regional and comprehensive understanding of the impacts of tropical storms and hurricanes on surface-water and groundwater quality—and thus water availability—is lacking for potentially impacted coastal and inland areas. As the U.S. Geological Survey considers development of tools to predict the extent to which water-quality impacts of hurricanes affect water availability, an assessment of the state of the science of hurricane impacts is needed, including a gap analysis and prioritization of data and science needs. This assessment focuses on the southeastern coastal States.

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Windham-Myers, L., Root, T.L., Petkewich, M.D., Musgrove, M., Gill, A.C., Weaver, J.C., Conaway, C.H., Lindsey, B.D., Parchaso, F., Knowles, N., and Tomaszewski, E.J., 2024, State of science, gap analysis, and prioritization for southeastern United States water-quality impacts from coastal storms—Fiscal year 2023 program report to the Water Resources Mission Area from the Water Availability Impacts of Extreme Events Program—Hurricanes: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2024–1048, 64 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20241048.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction and Rationale
  • State of the Science on Measurements of Water-Quality Impacts of Hurricanes
  • State of the Science on Modeling Water-Quality Impacts of Hurricanes
  • Emergent Opportunities to Address and Prioritize Gaps in Measurements and Models for Hurricanes in Coastal Watersheds
  • Conclusions and Directions for Improved Understanding of Hurricane Impacts
  • Acknowledgments
  • References Cited
  • Appendix 1. Summary of Literature Review by Water-Quality Constituents
  • Appendix 2. Flood Event Viewer and Available Datasets
  • Appendix 3. Coastal Salinity Index Forensic Prediction of Hurricane Impacts
  • Appendix 4. Coastal Salinity Index Monitoring Sites
  • Appendix 5. Focal Conceptual Models for Selected Storms with Hurricane Tracks and Responses at Selected Coastal Salinity Index Gages
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title State of science, gap analysis, and prioritization for southeastern United States water-quality impacts from coastal storms—Fiscal year 2023 program report to the Water Resources Mission Area from the Water Availability Impacts of Extreme Events Program—Hurricanes
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2024-1048
DOI 10.3133/ofr20241048
Year Published 2024
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Caribbean Water Science Center, South Carolina Water Science Center, Texas Water Science Center, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, WMA - Earth System Processes Division
Description vii, 64 p.
Country United States
Other Geospatial southeastern United States
Online Only (Y/N) Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N) N
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