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Articles | Volume 24, issue 10
Articles | Volume 24, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3627-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3627-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 24, issue 10
Research article
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24 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 24 Oct 2024

Risk of compound flooding substantially increases in the future Mekong River delta

Melissa Wood, Ivan D. Haigh, Quan Quan Le, Hung Nghia Nguyen, Hoang Ba Tran, Stephen E. Darby, Robert Marsh, Nikolaos Skliris, and Joël J.-M. Hirschi

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We look at how compound flooding from the combination of river flooding and storm tides (storm surge and astronomical tide) may be changing over time due to climate change, with a case study of the Mekong River delta. We found that future compound flooding has the potential to flood the region more extensively and be longer lasting than compound floods today. This is useful to know because it means managers of deltas such as the Mekong can assess options for improving existing flood defences.
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