Mann Research Group graduate student Andra Reed has a new article in theProceedings of the National Acadamies of Sciences about the impact of climate change on coastal flooding due the combined effect of storm surges from stronger hurricanes and sea level rise. Dr. Michael Mann was a co-author on the paper.
Increased threat of tropical cyclones and coastal flooding to New York City during the anthropogenic era
Andra J. Reed
Dept. of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Michael E. Mann
Dept. of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Kerry A. Emanuel
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Ning Lin
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Benjamin P. Horton
Dept. of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
Earth Observatory of Singapore and Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Andrew C. Kemp
Dept. of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Jeffrey P. Donnelly
Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
Article:
Reed, A.J., Mann, M.E., Emanuel, K.A., Lin, N., Horton, B., Kemp, A.C., Donnelly, J.P., Increased threat of tropical cyclones and coastal flooding to New York City during the anthropogenic era, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 112, 12610-12615, 2015.
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