Publications

2018

Cyriac, R., J. Dietrich, J. Fleming, B. Blanton, C. Kaiser, C. Dawson, and R. Luettich. Variability in coastal flooding predictions due to forecast errors during Hurricane Arthur. Coastal Engineering,137:59-78.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng. 2018.02.008.

2018

Davidson, R., L. Nozick, T. Wachtendorf, B. Blanton, B. Colle, R. Kolar, S. DeYoung, K. Dresback, W. Yi, K. Yang, and N. Leonardo. An Integrated Scenario Ensemble-Based Framework for Hurricane Evacuation Modeling: Part 1-Decision Support System. Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12990.

2018

Blanton, B., K. Dresback, B. Colle, R. Kolar, H. Vergara, Y. Hong, N. Leonardo, R. Davidson, L. Nozick, and T. Wachtendorf. An integrated scenario ensemble-based framework for hurricane evacuation modeling: Part 2-Hazard modeling. Risk Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13004.

2016

Kress, M., A. Benimoff, W. Fritz, C. Thatcher, B. Blanton, and E. Dzedzits. Modeling and simulation of storm surge on Staten Island to understand inundation mitigation strategies. In: Brock, J., D. Gesch, C. Parrish, J. Rogers, C. and Wright (eds.), Advances in Topobathymetric Mapping, Models, and Applications. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue, No. 76, pp. 149–161. ISSN 0749-0208.

2013

Hanson, J., M. Forte, B. Blanton, M. Gravens, and P. Vickery. FEMA Region III Storm Surge Study: Coastal Storm Surge Analysis: Storm Surge Results: Report 5: Intermediate Submission No. 3. Technical Report ERDC/CHL TR-11-1, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Field Research Facility, November 2013.

2013

Hanson, J., H. Wadman, B. Blanton, and H. Roberts. FEMA Region III Storm Surge Study: Coastal Storm Surge Analysis: Modeling System Validation: Report 4: Intermediate Submission No. 2. Technical Report ERDC/CHL TR-11-1, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center; Field Research Facility, July 2013.

2013

Vickery, P., D. Wadhera, A. Cox, V. Cardone, J. Hanson, and B. Blanton. FEMA Region III Storm Surge Study: Coastal Storm Surge Analysis: Storm Forcing: Report 3: Intermediate Submission No. 1.3. Technical Report ERDC/CHL TR-11-1, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Field Research Facility, July 2013.

2013

Dresback, K., J. Fleming, C. Kaiser, J. Gourley, E. Tromble, R. Luettich, Jr., R. Kolar, Y. Hong, S. Van Cooten, H. Vergara, Z. Flamig, B. Blanton, H. Lander, K. Kelleher, and K. Neumunaitis- Monroe. Skill assessment of a real-time forecast system utilizing a coupled hydrologic and coastal hydrodynamic model during Hurricane Irene (2011), Cont. Shelf Res., 71.

2012

Blanton, B., J. McGee, J. Fleming, C. Kaiser, H. Kaiser, H. Lander, R. Luettich, K. Dresback, and R. Kolar. Urgent computing of storm surge for North Carolina’s coast. Procedia Computer Science, 9(0):1677–1686. Proc. of the Internat’l Conf. on Computational Science, ICCS 2012.

2012

Savidge, D., J. Austin and B. Blanton. Variation in the Hatteras front density and velocity structure, Part 1: High Resolution Transects from three seasons in 2004-2005. Cont. Shelf Res., 54, 93-105.

2012

Savidge, D., J. Austin and B. Blanton. Variation in the Hatteras front density and velocity structure, Part 2: Historical setting. Cont. Shelf Res., 54, 106-116.

2011

Apivatanagul, P., R. Davidson, B. Blanton, and L. Nozick. Long-term regional hurricane hazard analysis for wind and storm surge, Coastal Engineering, 58(6), 499-509.

2010

Blanton, B. and R. Luettich. North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program: Coastal Flood Insurance Study. Technical Report TR-10-06, Renaissance Computing Institute, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.

2008

Atkinson, J., T. Wamsley, J. Westerink, M. Cialone, C. Dietrich, K. Dresback, R. Kolar, D. Resio, C. Bender, B. Blanton, and others. Hurricane Storm Surge and Wave Modeling in Southern Louisiana: A Brief Overview, In: Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, ASCE, pp. 467-506, doi:10.1061/40990(324)28.

2006

Ramakrishnan, L., B. Blanton, H. Lander, R. Luettich, D. Reed, and S. Thorpe. Real-time Storm Surge Ensemble Modeling in a Grid Environment, Second International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments.

2004

Blanton, B., F. Werner, H. Seim, R. Luettich, D. Lynch, K. Smith, G. Voulgaris, F. Bingham, and F. Way. Barotropic tides in the South Atlantic Bight, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C12024, 3264, doi:10.1029/2004JC002455.

2004

Lynch, D., K. Smith, B. Blanton, F. Werner and R. Luettich. Forecasting the coastal ocean: Resolution, tide and operational data in the South Atlantic Bight, J. Ocean. Atmos. Tech., 21(7), 1074-1085.

2003

Blanton, B. Toward Operational Modeling in the South Atlantic Bight, Ph. D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, pp. 135.

2003

Blanton, B., A. Aretxabaleta, F. Werner, and H. Seim. Monthly climatology of the continental shelf waters of the South Atlantic Bight, J. Geophys. Res., 108(C8), 3264.

2002

Hench, J., B. Blanton, and R. Luettich, Lateral dynamic analysis and classification of barotropic tidal inlets, Cont. Shelf Res., 22, 2615-2631.

2001

Werner, F., and B. Blanton, Coastal ocean models, in Encyclopedia of Ocean Science, edited by T. Steele and Thorpe, pp. 472-480, Harcourt Press.

2001

Lynch, D., C. Naimie, J. Ip, C. Lewis, F. Werner, R. Luettich, B. Blanton, J. Quinlan, D. McGillicuddy, J. Ledwell, J. Churchill, and others, Real-time data assimilative modeling on Georges Bank, Oceanography, 14, 65-77.

1999

Werner, F., B. Blanton, J. Quinlan, and R. Luettich. Physical oceanography of the North Carolina continental shelf during the fall and winter seasons: Implications to the transport of larval menhaden, J. Fish. Ocean., 8, 7-21, supp 2.