Impact of climate change on New York City’s coastal flood hazard: Increasing flood heights from the preindustrial to 2300 CE

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 45, 2017, Pages 11861-11866

  Garner, Andra J ^a,b   Mann, Michael E ^c   Emanuel, Kerry A ^d   Kopp, Robert E ^a,b   Lin, Ning ^e   Alley, Richard B ^c   Horton, Benjamin P ^a,b,f,g   DeConto, Robert M ^h   Donnelly, Jeffrey P ⁱ   Pollard, David ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^g NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

ⁱ WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal flooding; Flood height; New York City; Sea level rise; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FLOOD HAZARD; FLOOD HEIGHT; FLOODING; FUTUROLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HAZARD; HURRICANE; ICE SHEET; LATITUDE; NEW YORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEASHORE; SIMULATION; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SEA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTERS; FLOODS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW YORK CITY; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 85033457836     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1703568114     Document Type: Article

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