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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2461-2024
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19 Jul 2024
Research article |  | 19 Jul 2024

Estuarine hurricane wind can intensify surge-dominated extreme water level in shallow and converging coastal systems

Mithun Deb, James J. Benedict, Ning Sun, Zhaoqing Yang, Robert D. Hetland, David Judi, and Taiping Wang

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We coupled earth system, hydrology, and hydrodynamic models to generate plausible and physically consistent ensembles of hurricane events and their associated water levels from the open coast to tidal rivers of Delaware Bay and River. Our results show that the hurricane landfall locations and the estuarine wind can significantly amplify the extreme surge in a shallow and converging system, especially when the wind direction aligns with the surge propagation direction.
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