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SUBMITTER: Bevacqua E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7661409 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bevacqua Emanuele E Vousdoukas Michalis I MI Zappa Giuseppe G Hodges Kevin K Shepherd Theodore G TG Maraun Douglas D Mentaschi Lorenzo L Feyen Luc L
Communications earth & environment 20201112 1
Compound flooding arises from storms causing concurrent extreme meteorological tides (that is the superposition of storm surge and waves) and precipitation. This flooding can severely affect densely populated low-lying coastal areas. Here, combining output from climate and ocean models, we analyse the concurrence probability of the meteorological conditions driving compound flooding. We show that, under a high emissions scenario, the concurrence probability would increase globally by more than 2 ...[more]