Session Abstracts:
Session 7A
This interactive session is designed for attendees interested in understanding opportunities and needs in the simulation of windstorm events and their impacts across regions, inclusive of both wind and storm surge/wave effects. The session will introduce attendees to the current workflow for regional simulation of windstorm events, such as hurricanes. Invited discussants will lead 30-minute discussion blocks around three workflow modules associated with Hazard Description, Response Estimation, and Performance Assessment. Each block will begin with discussants presenting a vignette on their research related to this module. Each discussant will be invited to reflect on opportunities to improve the fidelity of and capabilities within that workflow module, while maintaining computational tractability. This will then prompt an interactive discussion with the audience on how the community can work with the SimCenter to seize these opportunities or address other related needs such as reduced-order models or uncertainty quantification. The session will close with a reflection on gaps in existing inventories/inventory generation tools that must be addressed to realize the desired enhancements in the hazards, response and performance modules.
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