From the extreme to the mean: Acceleration and tipping points of coastal inundation from sea level rise

• Published in: Earth's future Vol. 2; no. 12; pp. 579 - 600
• Main Authors: Sweet, William V., Park, Joseph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA Wiley Periodicals, Inc 01.12.2014; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: 21st century; Acceleration; Anomalies; Climate change; Coastal flooding; coastal inundation; Coasts; El Nino; El Nino-Southern Oscillation event; Evolution; Flooding; Floods; Gauges; High tide; Meteorological services; Multiple regression analysis; Nuisance; nuisance flooding; Probability; Regression analysis; Sea level; Sea level rise; Southern Oscillation; Statistical analysis; Storms; Tidal range; Tidal waves; Tidewater; Water levels; Weather; United States > US; New York City New York

Relative sea level rise (RSLR) has driven large increases in annual water level exceedances (duration and frequency) above minor (nuisance level) coastal flooding elevation thresholds established by the National Weather Service (NWS) at U.S. tide gauges over the last half‐century. For threshold leve...