Examples

These tutorial notebooks walk through coastal flood modeling workflows, from building the model grid to running the simulation and comparing results against NOAA tide-gauge observations.

The SFINCS notebooks cover a three-phase workflow:

1. Create: build a SFINCS model from an Area of Interest polygon (grid, elevation, subgrid tables, boundary conditions, observation points).
2. Run: download forcing data, write SFINCS input files, execute the model, and plot simulated vs. observed water levels.
3. Flood Map: downscale SFINCS water surface elevations onto a high-resolution DEM to produce a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF of maximum flood depth.

The SCHISM notebook demonstrates the end-to-end workflow with native (container-free) execution.

Prerequisites

The SFINCS examples require the downloaded forcing data cache (docs/examples/downloads/) and a compiled SFINCS executable. See Compiling SFINCS for build instructions. The SCHISM example requires a compiled SCHISM binary; see Compiling SCHISM.

• Lavaca Bay, TX

• Narragansett Bay, RI

• Hawaii (SCHISM)