Hazard assessment and hydrodynamic, morphodynamic,  and hydrological response to Hurricane Gamma  and Hurricane Delta on the northern Yucatán Peninsula

Torres-Freyermuth, Alec; Medellín, Gabriela; Kurczyn, Jorge A.; Pacheco-Castro, Roger; Arriaga, Jaime; Appendini, Christian M.; Allende-Arandía, María Eugenia; Gómez, Juan A.; Franklin, Gemma L.; Zavala-Hidalgo, Jorge

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-4063-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-4063-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-4063-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 12

Research article

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20 Dec 2022

Research article |

| 20 Dec 2022

Hazard assessment and hydrodynamic, morphodynamic, and hydrological response to Hurricane Gamma and Hurricane Delta on the northern Yucatán Peninsula

Alec Torres-Freyermuth, Gabriela Medellín, Jorge A. Kurczyn, Roger Pacheco-Castro, Jaime Arriaga, Christian M. Appendini, María Eugenia Allende-Arandía, Juan A. Gómez, Gemma L. Franklin, and Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo

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Preprint (discussion started on 06 Apr 2022)

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Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on nhess-2022-113', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Jul 2022

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://nhess.copernicus.org/preprints/nhess-2022-113/nhess-2022-113-RC1-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2022-113-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Alec Torres-Freyermuth, 18 Aug 2022
  
  We thank the reviewer for his/her comments. A point-by-point response is provided in the Supplement file.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2022-113-AC1
CC1:
'Comment on nhess-2022-113', Ali Farhadzadeh, 23 Jul 2022
The manuscript describes the results of a study on the effects and impacts of windstorms Delta and Gamma, on a barrier island near the Yucatan coast through analyses of environmental, morphological, anthropogenic,
and ecological observations.
Overall the manuscript presents an impressive amount of data analyses. It provides fresh insight into the very critical aspects of parameters are collectively influenced by the storms and play significant roles in how barrier islands respond to extreme coastal events.
My comments are minor:
English language here and there needs grammatical corrections. Please run the entire manuscript through copy editing and make sure there are no errors.

All symbols need to be defined, for instance, parameters noted in Line 132 are not defined.

Line 134, why the low band is chosen to be 1/48? Why not 1/24?

Some tables are distorted such as Table 3.
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2022-113-CC1
- AC3: 'Reply on CC1', Alec Torres-Freyermuth, 18 Aug 2022
  
  Dear Ali,
  Thank you for your comments. A point-by-point response is provided in the Supplement file.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2022-113-AC3
RC2:
'Comment on nhess-2022-113', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Jul 2022
The manuscript describes the results of a study on the effects and impacts of windstorms Delta and Gamma, on a barrier island near the Yucatan coast through analyses of environmental, morphological, anthropogenic,

and ecological observations.

Overall the manuscript presents an impressive amount of data analyses. It provides fresh insight into the very critical aspects of parameters are collectively influenced by the storms and play significant roles in how barrier islands respond to extreme coastal events.

My comments are minor:

English language here and there needs grammatical corrections. Please run the entire manuscript through copy editing and make sure there are no errors.

All symbols need to be defined, for instance, parameters noted in Line 132 are not defined.

Line 134, why the low band is chosen to be 1/48? Why not 1/24?

Some tables are distorted such as Table 3.
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2022-113-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Alec Torres-Freyermuth, 18 Aug 2022
  
  We thank the reviewer for his/her comments. A point-by-point response is provided in the Supplement file.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2022-113-AC2

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (18 Aug 2022) by Mauricio Gonzalez

AR by Alec Torres-Freyermuth on behalf of the Authors (11 Sep 2022) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Sep 2022) by Mauricio Gonzalez

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (05 Oct 2022)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (07 Oct 2022)

ED: Publish as is (17 Oct 2022) by Mauricio Gonzalez

AR by Alec Torres-Freyermuth on behalf of the Authors (30 Oct 2022)

Short summary

Barrier islands in tropical regions are prone to coastal flooding and erosion during hurricane events. The Yucatán coast was impacted by hurricanes Gamma and Delta. Inner shelf, coastal, and inland observations were acquired. Beach morphology changes show alongshore gradients. Flooding occurred on the back barrier due to heavy inland rain and the coastal aquifer's confinement. Modeling systems failed to reproduce the coastal hydrodynamic response due to uncertainties in the boundary conditions.