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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3693-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3693-2021
Research article
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08 Dec 2021
Research article |  | 08 Dec 2021

Towards using state-of-the-art climate models to help constrain estimates of unprecedented UK storm surges

Tom Howard and Simon David Paul Williams

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We use a computer model to simulate storm surges around the coast of the United Kingdom. The model is based on the physics of the atmosphere and oceans. We hope that this will help us to better quantify extreme events: even bigger than those that have been seen in the tide gauge record. Our model simulates events which are comparable to the catastrophic 1953 storm surge. Model simulations have the potential to reduce the uncertainty in inferences of the most extreme surge return levels.
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