Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1601-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1601-2019
Research article
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05 Aug 2019
Research article |  | 05 Aug 2019

The effects of changing climate on estuarine water levels: a United States Pacific Northwest case study

Kai Parker, David Hill, Gabriel García-Medina, and Jordan Beamer

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Our ability to manage estuaries is currently limited by a poor understanding of how they will evolve into the future. This study explores flooding conditions at two US Pacific estuaries as controlled by changing climate. The hazard is characterized using a variety of models that track oceanic, atmospheric, and hydrologic forcing at decadal scales. It is found that flood surface height varies significantly across estuaries and can be expected to change in complex ways moving into the future.
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