A validated tropical-extratropical flood hazard assessment for New York Harbor

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 121, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 8904-8929

  Orton, P M ^a   Hall, T M ^b   Talke, S A ^c   Blumberg, A F ^a   Georgas, N ^a   Vinogradov, S ^a,d  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

extratropical cyclone; flooding; hazard; New York; storm surge; tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HURRICANE SANDY 2012; NATURAL HAZARD; RETURN PERIOD; STORM SURGE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NEW YORK HARBOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85007415475     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JC011679     Document Type: Article

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