Land subsidence contribution to coastal flooding hazard in southeast Florida...

Wdowinski, S., T. Oliver-Cabrera, and S. Fiaschi (2023), Land subsidence contribution to coastal flooding hazard in southeast Florida – An update, The Tenth International Symposium on Land Subsidence (TISOLS), Apr. 17 - Jul. 21, Delft, The Netherlands.
Abstract: 

The current study updates the results of our TISOL 2020 paper describing geodetic measurement efforts in southeast Florida to monitor local subsidence and evaluates its contribution to coastal flooding hazards. Over the past three years, we established a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) monitoring network in Miami-Dade County, acquired and processed the GNSS data, and continued Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) monitoring using Sentinel-1 observations. The GNSS observations spanning over a period of 2.35 years revealed that all four stations have subsided at rates of 1.7-5.8 mm/yr. InSAR time series analysis of the Sentinel-1 data acquired during 2016-2021 indicates a shift in subsidence pattern with respect to the 1993-1999 ERS-1/2 results. The Sentinel-1 results show mostly localized subsidence associated with recent large building constructions, whereas the ERS-1/2 results show mainly pockets of subsidence in the western section of the city, where the city was built over reclaimed wetlands. The one exception in the ERS-1/2 results was localized subsidence in the eastern part of the city of a 12-story condominium building, the Champlain Tower South in Surfside, which collapsed in 2021 and attracted worldwide attention.

Research Program: 
Earth Surface & Interior Program (ESI)
Location: 
Delft, The Netherlands
Conference: 
The Tenth International Symposium on Land Subsidence (TISOLS)
Conference Date: 
Monday, April 17, 2023 - Friday, July 21, 2023
Funding Sources: 
Florida Office of Insurance Regulations.