Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Global probabilistic projections of extreme sea levels show intensification of coastal flood hazard

  • Michalis I. Vousdoukas,
  • Lorenzo Mentaschi,
  • Evangelos Voukouvalas,
  • Martin Verlaan,
  • Svetlana Jevrejeva,
  • Luke P. Jackson,
  • Luc Feyen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04692-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Extreme sea levels are a flood risk along the world’s coastlines. Here the authors carry out probabilistic projections of extreme sea levels and show that for the present century coastal flood hazards will increase significantly along most of the global coastlines.