The document summarizes a meeting to understand flooding on reef-lined island coasts. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together experts to share their areas of expertise, develop relationships, and understand current knowledge and gaps regarding operational flooding forecasts and projecting future climate change impacts. The meeting aimed to develop a consortium of expertise, better relationships between groups, identify funding opportunities, and publish an article on knowledge gaps.

1. Understanding Flooding on
Reef-lined Island Coasts
5-7 February 2018
John A. Burns Hall, East-West Center
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI, USA
Supported by NOAA-NESDIS and USGS-CMGP
Run in collaboration with CSIRO and Deltares

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Purpose
Bring us together to better:
(1) understand our respective areas of expertise,
(2) develop our relationships, and
(3) understand what we know, what we don’t, and where
to go from here regarding:
(a) operationally forecast flooding now
(b) project changes in habitability for future climate-
change scenarios over the next 10-50 years

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Thousands of reef-lined islands
Scale of the Problem
Hundreds of tropical high island chains and atolls

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Outcomes
Consortium of expertise
Better developed working relationships between groups
Identify opportunities for funding and system application
Synthesis and publication of article on knowledge gaps

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Status and Needs
Observations – in situ
Observations – remote sensing
Models
Products – hindcasts, nowcasts, forecasts, and scenarios