Increased nuisance flooding along the coasts of the United States due to sea level rise: Past and future

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 9846-9852

  Moftakhari, Hamed R ^a   AghaKouchak, Amir ^a   Sanders, Brett F ^a,b   Feldman, David L ^b   Sweet, William ^c   Matthew, Richard A ^b   Luke, Adam ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change impacts; coastal region; nuisance flooding; sea level rise; socio economic threat

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEALTH RISKS; LOSSES; PUBLIC RISKS; SEA LEVEL;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; COASTAL REGIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSIONS; NON DESTRUCTIVE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

COASTAL ZONES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; FLOODING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GEODETIC DATUM; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIDAL RANGE; TRAJECTORY; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84956876526     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066072     Document Type: Article

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