1. Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment (CERA)
CERA is an automated visualization tool for storm surge and wave guidance during hurricanes
Predicts water heights and flooding in coastal areas in real-time during active tropical storm conditions
Visual presentation of storm modeling results on interactive CERA websites
Automated workflows on high-end compute resources
Uses the Google Maps interface - easy to use
Web based results used by emergency managers, NOAA, GOHSEP, DHS, Coastal Guard, CPRA
Supported by Louisiana’s Sea Grant College Program and Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence, NC
Intensely used during SANDY, ISAAC (2012), IRENE (2011)
Received DHS Impact Award in Nov. 2012

2. CERA Access
CERA Home Page coastalemergency.org CERA Northern Gulf cera.cct.lsu.edu CERA Atlantic Cost nc-cera.renci.org