Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 9
Articles | Volume 25, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3125-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3125-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 25, issue 9
Research article
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08 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 08 Sep 2025

Impacts of barrier-island breaching on mainland flooding during storm events applied to Moriches, New York

Catherine R. Jeffries, Robert Weiss, Jennifer L. Irish, and Kyle Mandli

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Barrier islands are important to their adjacent mainland coastline. Breaching of barrier islands creates a channel of water between the ocean and bay and increases the storm surge along the mainland coast. To examine how breaching impacts the coast, we simulated a hurricane and varied the number, locations, and sizes of different breaches. We learned that the total breach area directly impacts coastal flooding and that breach locations are an important predictor of flooding.
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