Climate extremes and compound hazards in a warming world

A AghaKouchak, F Chiang, LS Huning… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Climate extremes threaten human health, economic stability, and the well-being of natural
and built environments (eg, 2003 European heat wave). As the world continues to warm …

Geomorphic and sedimentary effects of modern climate change: Current and anticipated future conditions in the western United States

AE East, JB Sankey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been
documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far …

Sea-level rise exponentially increases coastal flood frequency

M Taherkhani, S Vitousek, PL Barnard, N Frazer… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Sea-level rise will radically redefine the coastline of the 21st century. For many coastal
regions, projections of global sea-level rise by the year 2100 (eg, 0.5–2 meters) are …

Increasing threat of coastal groundwater hazards from sea-level rise in California

KM Befus, PL Barnard, DJ Hoover, JA Finzi Hart… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Projected sea-level rise will raise coastal water tables, resulting in groundwater hazards that
threaten shallow infrastructure and coastal ecosystem resilience. Here we model a range of …

The value of US coral reefs for flood risk reduction

BG Reguero, CD Storlazzi, AE Gibbs, JB Shope… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Habitats, such as coral reefs, can mitigate increasing flood damages through coastal
protection services. We provide a fine-scale, national valuation of the flood risk reduction …
A Bukvic, G Rohat, A Apotsos, A de Sherbinin - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Coastal areas worldwide represent an aggregation of population and assets of growing
economic, geopolitical, and sociocultural significance, yet their functions are increasingly …

Uncertainties in projections of sandy beach erosion due to sea level rise: an analysis at the European scale

P Athanasiou, A van Dongeren, A Giardino… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Sea level rise (SLR) will cause shoreline retreat of sandy coasts in the absence of sand
supply mechanisms. These coasts have high touristic and ecological value and provide …

Operational forecasts of wave-driven water levels and coastal hazards for US Gulf and Atlantic coasts

HF Stockdon, JW Long, ML Palmsten… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Predictions of total water levels, the elevation of combined tides, surge, and wave runup at
the shoreline, are necessary to provide guidance on potential coastal erosion and flooding …