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SUBMITTER: Winkler TS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7538955 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Winkler Tyler S TS van Hengstum Peter J PJ Donnelly Jeffrey P JP Wallace Elizabeth J EJ Sullivan Richard M RM MacDonald Dana D Albury Nancy A NA
Scientific reports 20201006 1
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 scale) Hurricane Dorian demonstrated the destructive potential of these natural hazards. Problematically, determining whether high hurricane activity levels remained constant through time is difficult given the short observational record (< 170 years). We present a 700-year long, near-annually resolved stratigraphic record of h ...[more]