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- Title
Coastal extreme sea levels in the Caribbean Sea induced by tropical cyclones.
- Authors
Martin, Ariadna; Amores, Angel; Orfila, Alejandro; Toomey, Tim; Marcos, Marta
- Abstract
Every year the Caribbean Sea faces the passage of several tropical cyclones that generate coastal extreme sea levels with potential strong and hazardous impacts. In this work we simulate the storm surges and wind-waves induced by a set of 1000 tropical cyclones over the Caribbean Sea that are representative of the present-day climate. These events have been extracted from a global database of synthetic hurricanes spanning a 10,000-year period. The atmospheric forcing fields, associated to the set of tropical cyclones, are 5 used to feed a coupled hydrodynamic-wave model with high resolution (~2 km) along the continental and islands coasts. Given the large number of events modeled, our results allow detailed statistical analyses of the magnitude and mechanisms of coastal extreme sea levels as well as the identification of most exposed areas to both storm surges and extreme wind-waves.
- Subjects
TROPICAL cyclones; STORM surges; SEA level; HURRICANES
- Publication
Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences Discussions, 2022, p1
- ISSN
2195-9269
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/nhess-2022-120