Catch the King Tide 2019: All King Tide Data
Loftis, Jon Derek
Loftis, Jon Derek
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"Catch the King" is a community science GPS flood extent mapping effort centered in Tidewater Virginia, USA, that seeks to map the King Tide's maximum inundation extent with the goal of validating and improving inundation prediction models like the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s Tidewatch Map (https://cmap2.vims.edu/SCHISM/TidewatchViewer.html). This 36-hour storm tide inundation forecast model is based on the Center for Coastal Resources Management’s open-source SCHISM hydrodynamic model’s operational outputs, updated every 12 hours at noon and midnight (EST). Timestamped GPS-reported high water marks were collected by volunteers to effectively trace the high water line by pressing the 'Save Data' button in the free Sea Level Rise mobile app (available on iOS and Android) in regular intervals along the water's edge during one of the highest astronomical tides of 2019, October 27th, from 09:00 AM - 02:59 PM EDT. Response from the event's numerous volunteers, fueled by local media partners' coverage leading up to the event, and 28 separate volunteer training events held all over Hampton Roads resulted in an estimated 291 known participants collecting 36,218 time-stamped GPS maximum flooding extent measurements and 218 geotagged photographs of the King Tide flooding during the event.
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2019-11-01
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Sea Level Rise, Tides, Flooding, Virginia, Citizen Science, Community Science, Inundation Data
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Loftis, Jon Derek, "Catch the King Tide 2019: All King Tide Data" (2019). Data. William & Mary. Virginia Institute of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.25773/PVMM-PY38
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Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM)
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<p>https://doi.org/10.25773/PVMM-PY38</p>