Event Sponsor: Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory

ERDC’s Coastal Storm-Modeling System (ERDC-CSTORM-MS), formerly known as MORPHOS, is a physics-based modeling capability for simulating tropical and extra-tropical storm, wind, wave, water level and coastal response (erosion, breaching, and accretion). Its goal is to more rigorously represent the underlying physical processes and reduce dependence on empirical tuning factors, while also providing a powerful and user-friendly interface to the models via the Surface-Water Modeling System (SMS). Focused research and a spiral development strategy are producing an integrated suite of tools to support a wide range of coastal engineering needs. Depending on the scope of a project, models can be applied stand-alone, or as an integrated system on a desktop PC, or as an integrated system on high-performance computing assets. CSTORM-MS provides for a robust, standardized approach to establishing the risk of coastal communities to future occurrences of storm events.

A four day workshop is being conducted to provide a detailed overview of this new modeling framework as well as hands-on training to participants using real world examples with an emphasis on modeling hurricane events. Space is limited so please register soon!

Contact: Elizabeth.C.Burg@usace.army.mil.
Technical Contact: Chris.Massey@usace.army.mil.