Tsunami deposits of the Caribbean–Towards an improved coastal hazard assessment

M Engel, J Oetjen, SM May, H Brückner - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Coasts worldwide experience considerable population pressure and the demand for reliable
hazard management, such as of tsunamis, increases. Tsunami hazard assessment requires …

Evidence of recent sea-level rise and the formation of a classic Maya canal system inferred from Boca Paila cave sediments, Sian Ka'an biosphere, Mexico

RE Steele, EG Reinhardt, F Devos, S Meacham… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cave sediments along the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula contain important records
of paleoenvironmental change that have not been fully explored. Reconstructing …

Last millennium hurricane activity linked to endogenous climate variability

W Yang, E Wallace, GA Vecchi, JP Donnelly… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite increased Atlantic hurricane risk, projected trends in hurricane frequency in the
warming climate are still highly uncertain, mainly due to short instrumental record that limits …

[HTML][HTML] Revising evidence of hurricane strikes on Abaco Island (The Bahamas) over the last 700 years

TS Winkler, PJ van Hengstum, JP Donnelly… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The northern Bahamas have experienced more frequent intense-hurricane impacts than
almost anywhere else in the Atlantic since 1850 CE. In 2019, category 5 (Saffir-Simpson …

Intense hurricane activity over the past 1500 years at South Andros Island, The Bahamas

EJ Wallace, JP Donnelly… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hurricanes cause substantial loss of life and resources in coastal areas. Unfortunately,
historical hurricane records are too short and incomplete to capture hurricane‐climate …

Northeast Yucatan hurricane activity during the Maya Classic and Postclassic periods

RM Sullivan, PJ van Hengstum, JP Donnelly… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The collapse of the Maya civilization in the late 1st/early 2nd millennium CE has been
attributed to multiple internal and external causes including overpopulation, increased …

2500-year paleotempestological record of intense storms for the northern Gulf of Mexico, United States

JC Bregy, DJ Wallace, RL Totten, VJ Cruz - Marine Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The northern Gulf of Mexico has been devastated by recent intense storms. Camille
(1969) and Katrina (2005) are two notable hurricanes that made landfall in nearly the same …

Caribbean cyclone activity: An annually-resolved Common Era record

D Schmitt, E Gischler, FS Anselmetti, H Vogel - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Tropical cyclones (TC) represent a substantial threat to life and property for Caribbean and
adjacent populations. The prospective increase of TC magnitudes, expressed in the 15th …

Flooding of a carbonate platform: The Sian Kaʼan Wetlands, Yucatán, Mexico—A model for the formation and evolution of palustrine carbonate factories around the …

NH Platt, VP Wright - The Depositional Record, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamic inter‐relationships between marine and freshwater carbonate depositional
environments are illustrated in the Sian Ka'an Wetlands, a 5 280 km2 complex of …

1,050 years of hurricane strikes on Long Island in The Bahamas

EJ Wallace, JP Donnelly… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sedimentary records of past hurricane activity indicate centennial‐scale periods over the
past millennium with elevated hurricane activity. The search for the underlying mechanism …