@article{10902/12341,
year = {2017},
month = {7},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/12341},
abstract = {Coastal communities throughout the world are exposed to numerous and increasing threats, such as coastal flooding and erosion, saltwater intrusion and wetland degradation. Here, we present the first global-scale analysis of the main drivers of coastal flooding due to large-scale oceanographic factors. Given the large dimensionality of the problem (e.g. spatiotemporal variability in flood magnitude and the relative influence of waves, tides and surge levels), we have performed a computer-based classification to identify geographical areas with homogeneous climates. Results show that 75% of coastal regions around the globe have the potential for very large flooding events with low probabilities (unbounded tails), 82% are tide-dominated, and almost 49% are highly susceptible to increases in flooding frequency due to sea-level rise.},
organization = {A.R., F.J.M. and P.C. acknowledge the support of the Spanish ‘Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad’ under Grants BIA2014-59643-R and BIA2015-70644-R. This work was critically supported by the US Geological Survey under Grant/Cooperative Agreement G15AC00426 and from the US DOD Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP Project RC-2644) through the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Dynamic atmospheric corrections (storm surge) are produced by CLS Space Oceanography Division using the Mog2D model from Legos and distributed by Aviso, with support from CNES (http://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/). Marine data from global reanalysis are provided by IHCantabria and are available for research purposes upon request at ihdata@ihcantabria.com.},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
publisher = {Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 5038 (2017)},
title = {A global classification of coastal flood hazard climates associated with large-scale oceanographic forcing},
author = {Rueda Zamora, Ana Cristina and Vitousek, Sean and Camus Braña, Paula and Tomás Sampedro, Antonio and Espejo Hermosa, Antonio and Losada Rodríguez, Iñigo and Barnard, P.L. and Erikson, P.L. and Ruggiero, P.L. and Reguero, Borja G. and Méndez Incera, Fernando Javier},
}