ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Case study -- ch. 3. Storm surge modeling -- ch. 4. Computational intelligence -- ch. 5. Nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory -- ch. 6. Building predictive chaotic model -- ch. 7. Enhancements : resolving issues of high dimensionality, phase errors, incompleteness and false neighbors -- ch. 8. Computational intelligence in identifying optimal predictive chaotic model -- ch. 9. Real-time data assimilation using narx neural network -- ch. 10. Ensemble model prediction -- ch. 11. Conclusions and recommendations.