Table 1. Mineral sediment deposition estimates and model results for Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike.
| Wetland deposition | IDW statistics2 | Most distant observed sedimentation | |||||||||
| Gulf Coast landfall | Total (MMT) | Model error (MMT) | RMSE3 (g cm−2) | Mean error (g cm−2) | n | (km from track) | (km from coast) | Maximum accretion (g cm−2) | Percent land in depositional area | ||
| Katrina | 8/29/2005 | 67.8 | ± | 8.6 | 2.4 | 0.09 | 77 | 148 | 43 | 20.81 | 52.19 |
| Rita | 9/24/2005 | 48.2 | ± | 8.3 | 3.25 | 0.11 | 45 | 166 | 12 | 19.95 | 64.29 |
| Gustav | 9/1/2008 | 20.6 | ± | 3.9 | 1.19 | 0.04 | 110 | 100 | 40 | 7.46 | 55.40 |
| Ike1 | 9/13/2008 | 32.8 | ± | 10.9 | 1.85 | 0.17 | 37 | 214 | 7 | 16.73 | 65.54 |
| Total | 169.4 | ± | 31.7 | ||||||||
1
Texas depositional area not sampled.
2
RMSE: root mean square error.
3
IDW: inverse distance weighting, the method used to estimate total deposition.