Abstract

A study on the impact of different typhoon trackson Jiangsu coastal storm surge has been conducted by setting upseveral experiments respectively directing at different typhoontracks, including Typhoon offshore distance, landing angle andsites, and by using the numerical model of storm surgeconstructed based on the SELFE model. The study findingssuggest that the maximum storm surges in coastal areas ofJiangsu decrease mainly with increasing offshore distance oftyphoon tracks, and as the typhoon track moves away from theshore, the storm surge offshore will increase. With the increaseof landing angle, the maximum storm surges in radial sandridges would gradually decrease and those in the south of radialsand ridges in Jiangsu coastal areas will first increase and thendecrease, and those in the north of radial sand ridges in Jiangsucoastal areas would remain unchanged and then decrease.