Increasing risk of compound flooding from storm surge and rainfall for major US cities

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1093-1097

  Wahl, Thomas ^a,b   Jain, Shaleen ^c   Bender, Jens ^b   Meyers, Steven D ^a   Luther, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL PROTECTION; COASTAL ZONE; FLOOD FREQUENCY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM SURGE;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948131753     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2736     Document Type: Article

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