Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard

A Gori, N Lin, D **, K Emanuel - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are drivers of extreme rainfall and surge, but the current and future
TC rainfall–surge joint hazard has not been well quantified. Using a physics-based …

Global population profile of tropical cyclone exposure from 2002 to 2019

R **g, S Heft-Neal, DR Chavas, M Griswold, Z Wang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Tropical cyclones have far-reaching impacts on livelihoods and population health that often
persist years after the event,,–. Characterizing the demographic and socioeconomic profile …

Impact of climate change on New York City's coastal flood hazard: Increasing flood heights from the preindustrial to 2300 CE

AJ Garner, ME Mann, KA Emanuel, RE Kopp… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
The flood hazard in New York City depends on both storm surges and rising sea levels. We
combine modeled storm surges with probabilistic sea-level rise projections to assess future …

Scenario setup and forcing data for impact model evaluation and impact attribution within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project …

K Frieler, J Volkholz, S Lange, J Schewe… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper describes the rationale and the protocol of the first component of the third
simulation round of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a …

Hurricane Sandy's flood frequency increasing from year 1800 to 2100

N Lin, RE Kopp, BP Horton, JP Donnelly - Proceedings of the National …, 2016 - pnas.org
Coastal flood hazard varies in response to changes in storm surge climatology and the sea
level. Here we combine probabilistic projections of the sea level and storm surge …

A model for the complete radial structure of the tropical cyclone wind field. Part I: Comparison with observed structure

DR Chavas, N Lin, K Emanuel - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Part I of this work develops a simple model for the complete radial structure of the low-level
tropical cyclone wind field. The model is constructed by mathematically merging existing …

Resolving tropical cyclone intensity in models

CA Davis - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, global weather forecast models and global climate models have begun to
depict intense tropical cyclones, even up to category 5 on the Saffir‐Simpson scale. In light …

Global tropical cyclone extreme wave height climatology

G Grossmann-Matheson, IR Young, A Meucci… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
A global study of extreme value (1 in 100-year return period) tropical cyclone generated
waves is conducted across all tropical cyclone basins. The study uses a 1000 year tropical …

Physical understanding of the tropical cyclone wind-pressure relationship

DR Chavas, KA Reed, JA Knaff - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
The relationship between the two common measures of tropical cyclone intensity, the central
pressure deficit and the peak near-surface wind speed, is a long-standing problem in …

Extensive high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data analysis of tropical cyclones: Comparisons with SFMR flights and best track

C Combot, A Mouche, J Knaff, Y Zhao… - Monthly Weather …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
To produce more precise descriptions of air–sea exchanges under tropical cyclones (TCs),
spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instruments provide unique capabilities to probe …