Articles | Volume 19, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-973-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-973-2019
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03 May 2019
Research article |  | 03 May 2019

Water-level attenuation in global-scale assessments of exposure to coastal flooding: a sensitivity analysis

Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Mark Schuerch, Claudia Wolff, Tom Spencer, Jan L. Merkens, Jochen Hinkel, Daniel Lincke, Sally Brown, and Robert J. Nicholls

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This paper evaluates the effect of surge water level reduction due to land surface characteristics when assessing flood impacts at global scales. Our results show that uncertainties due to not accounting for water attenuation are of similar magnitude to the uncertainties regarding the total amount of sea-level rise expected by 2100, thus highlighting the need for better understanding of the spatial and temporal variation of water levels across floodplains.
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