Storm Surges at the Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge

This project quantified the ability of salt marshes in the Chesapeake Bay to attenuate coastal hazards; including the attenuation of storm surge and the reduction of wave energy by these natural ecosystems. The project documented the interaction of storm surges and waves with marshes by measuring hydrodynamic conditions in the field during extreme events (waves, currents and water levels), vegetation bio-mechanic characteristics (biomass, stem height, diameter, and density) and topo-bathymetric surveys in several natural preserves in the Chesapeake Bay during the extent of the project, including several coastal storms and hurricanes. All the field procedures, data processing, equipment and project methodology are described in the QAPP document. This dataset provides the information for the Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge.

本项目量化了切萨皮克湾（Chesapeake Bay）盐沼抵御海岸灾害的能力，涵盖此类自然生态系统对风暴潮的削弱以及波浪能量的衰减作用。本项目通过在项目实施周期内（覆盖多场沿海风暴与飓风事件），于切萨皮克湾多处自然保护区开展野外实测，获取极端事件（波浪、流场与水位）下的水动力条件数据、植被生物力学特征（生物量、茎高、直径与密度）以及地形水深测量数据，以此记录风暴潮、波浪与盐沼间的相互作用过程。所有野外作业流程、数据处理方法、仪器设备及项目研究方法均已在QAPP文档中详细说明。本数据集为弗吉尼亚州国家野生动物保护区东翼（Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge）提供相关研究数据。