Risk assessment of hurricane storm surge for New York City

Hurricane storm surge presents a major hazard for the United States. We apply a model-based risk assessment methodology to investigate hurricane storm surge risk for New York City (NYC). We couple a statistical/deterministic hurricane model with the hydrodynamic model SLOSH (sea, lake, and overland...

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Main Authors: Lin, N (Author), Emanuel, Kerry Andrew (Contributor), Smith, J. A. (Author), Vanmarcke, E. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union, 2011-05-19T13:50:36Z.
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