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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-425
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-425
18 Apr 2023
 | 18 Apr 2023
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Probabilistic Methods for Projecting Average Recurrence Intervals of Coastal Flooding with Sea Level Rise

Timothy Hall, James P. Kossin, Terence Thompson, Seung Hun Baek, Kimberley Drouin, and Danielle Montagne

Abstract. We illustrate efficient methods to estimate future projected average return intervals (ARIs) of flood depths in coastal regions from storm-tide data and sea-level rise (SLR) projections. A flood-water path-finding algorithm is applied to digital elevation models (DEMs) in coastal regions to determine possible flood depths at interior points, given storm-tide levels at ARIs and local SLR with uncertainty on the coast. We show that the distribution of projected ARIs of a historical baseline flood-depth is truncated log-normal in the Gumbel extreme-value approximation, and we provide analytic expressions for the means. With this approximation, projected change in flood damage over a range of ARIs can be estimated by analysis at any single ARI. Compared to flood-depth distributions, ARI distributions are less directly related to flood damage, but they have the advantage of relative insensitivity to uncertainties in DEMs and other granular details of flood-risk modeling. We illustrate with applications to Miami, Florida, and coastal North Carolina using two different DEMs.

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We illustrate techniques to estimate changes in coastal flood frequency with rising sea level....
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