Author(s)

G.G. Tomasson, K. Gislason & Th. Karlsson

Abstract

An existing tidal simulation model covering the North-Atlantic Ocean around Iceland has been extended to a storm surge model for the coast of Iceland. The model can be run with two types of meteorological forcing, a prescribed circularly symmetrical pressure and wind fields, simulating typical low pressure systems causing extreme conditions along the coast, and pressure and wind fields taken directly from weather forecast models. Two particular cases have been studied. The first one, a storm that hit Iceland in January 1990 and caused considerable damage along the south- and west-coast of the country, is considered one of the worst storms of this century. The second one, a storm that hit the country in February 1996 during extremely high tides, was considered threate

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