Risk assessment of hurricane storm surge for New York City

Hurricane storm surge presents a major hazard for the United States. We apply a model-based risk assessment methodology to investigate hurricane storm surge risk for New York City (NYC). We couple a statistical/deterministic hurricane model with the hydrodynamic model SLOSH (sea, lake, and overland...

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Main Authors: Lin, N, Emanuel, Kerry Andrew, Smith, J. A., Vanmarcke, E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62845
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-2082