A typology of compound weather and climate events

J Zscheischler, O Martius, S Westra… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Compound weather and climate events describe combinations of multiple climate drivers
and/or hazards that contribute to societal or environmental risk. Although many climate …

Tropical cyclone disaster management using remote sensing and spatial analysis: A review

MAA Hoque, S Phinn, C Roelfsema, I Childs - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tropical cyclones and their often devastating impacts are common in many coastal areas
across the world. Many techniques and dataset have been designed to gather information …

Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard

A Gori, N Lin, D Xi, K Emanuel - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are drivers of extreme rainfall and surge, but the current and future
TC rainfall–surge joint hazard has not been well quantified. Using a physics-based …

Climate change exacerbates hurricane flood hazards along US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts in spatially varying patterns

R Marsooli, N Lin, K Emanuel, K Feng - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
One of the most destructive natural hazards, tropical cyclone (TC)–induced coastal flooding,
will worsen under climate change. Here we conduct climatology–hydrodynamic modeling to …

Trends in Europe storm surge extremes match the rate of sea-level rise

FM Calafat, T Wahl, MG Tadesse, SN Sparrow - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Coastal communities across the world are already feeling the disastrous impacts of climate
change through variations in extreme sea levels. These variations reflect the combined …

Physically based assessment of hurricane surge threat under climate change

N Lin, K Emanuel, M Oppenheimer… - Nature Climate …, 2012 - nature.com
Storm surges are responsible for much of the damage and loss of life associated with
landfalling hurricanes. Understanding how global warming will affect hurricane surges thus …

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

AJ Garner, ME Mann, KA Emanuel… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The flood hazard in New York City depends on both storm surges and rising sea levels. We
combine modeled storm surges with probabilistic sea-level rise projections to assess future …

Modelling sea level rise impacts on storm surges along US coasts

C Tebaldi, BH Strauss, CE Zervas - Environmental Research …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Sound policies for protecting coastal communities and assets require good information
about vulnerability to flooding. Here, we investigate the influence of sea level rise on …

Rapid prediction of peak storm surge from tropical cyclone track time series using machine learning

JW Lee, JL Irish, MT Bensi, DC Marcy - Coastal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid and accurate prediction of peak storm surges across an extensive coastal region is
necessary to inform assessments used to design the systems that protect coastal …

Accounting for tropical cyclones more than doubles the global population exposed to low-probability coastal flooding

JCM Dullaart, S Muis, N Bloemendaal… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Storm surges that occur along low-lying, densely populated coastlines can leave
devastating societal, economical, and ecological impacts. To protect coastal communities …