There is a growing interest for marine flooding related to recent catastrophic events and their
unintended consequences in terms of casualties and damages, and to the increasing …

Coasts worldwide experience considerable population pressure and the demand for reliable
hazard management, such as of tsunamis, increases. Tsunami hazard assessment requires …

Purpose Climate change poses diverse, often fundamental, challenges to livelihoods of
island peoples. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that these challenges must be …

Most Atlantic hurricanes form in the Main Development Region between 9° N to 20° N along
the northern edge of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Previous research has …

In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link
between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic …

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 …

Quaternary climate and sea-level research in coastal karst basins (caves, cenotes,
sinkholes, blueholes, etc.) generally focuses on analyzing isotopes in speleothems, or …

Hurricanes cause substantial loss of life and resources in coastal areas. Unfortunately,
historical hurricane records are too short and incomplete to capture hurricane‐climate …

Tropical cyclones (TCs) are powerful agents of destruction and understanding climatic
controls on TC patterns is of great importance. Over timescales of seasons to several …

Tropical cyclones (TC) represent a substantial threat to life and property for Caribbean and
adjacent populations. The prospective increase of TC magnitudes, expressed in the 15th …