Increased threat of tropical cyclones and coastal flooding to New York City during the anthropogenic era

• Main Authors: Reed, Andra J., Mann, Michael E., Emanuel, Kerry A., Lin, Ning, Kemp, Andrew C., Donnelly, Jeffrey P., Horton, Benjamin P.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Relative sea level; New Jersey; Tropical cyclones; Storm surge; Flood height
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81186; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39164
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In a changing climate, future inundation of the United States’ Atlantic coast will depend on both storm surges during tropical cyclones and the rising relative sea levels on which those surges occur. However, the observational record of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin is too short (A.D...