The influence of an extended Atlantic hurricane season on inland flooding potential in the southeastern United States

Stone, Monica H.; Cohen, Sagy

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-439-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-439-2017

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Risk and uncertainty estimation in natural hazards

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-439-2017

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Articles | Volume 17, issue 3

Research article

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21 Mar 2017

Research article |

| 21 Mar 2017

The influence of an extended Atlantic hurricane season on inland flooding potential in the southeastern United States

Monica H. Stone and Sagy Cohen

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Final revised paper (published on 21 Mar 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 04 Nov 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Manuscript Review: Assessing the Influence of an Extended Hurricane Season on Inland Flooding Potential in the Southeast United States', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Nov 2016
AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Monica Stone, 17 Nov 2016
- RC2: 'Good job', Robert Rohli, 17 Nov 2016
RC3: 'Comment on "Assessing the influence of an extended hurricane season on flooding potential in the Southeast United States"', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Dec 2016
AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Monica Stone, 12 Jan 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (05 Feb 2017) by Thorsten Wagener

AR by Monica Stone on behalf of the Authors (14 Feb 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (24 Feb 2017) by Thorsten Wagener

AR by Monica Stone on behalf of the Authors (28 Feb 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

This research was conducted in order to determine what effect a longer hurricane season is likely to have on flooding risk in the southeastern United States. We found that an extension of the hurricane season to May–December (just 2 months longer) increased the number of days that would be at risk to flooding were the average tropical cyclone to occur by 28–180 %. This is signifiant, as global climate change is likely to increase sea surface temperatures and extend the hurricane season.