[Summary]U.S. Flood Risk Could Be Worse Than We Thought

[Summary]  

U.S. Flood Risk Could Be Worse Than We Thought

(Jul 14th 2015, By  KATY STEINMETZ / SAN FRANCISCO)

(8/28 update 1)Abstract

The compound event for the flooding is going to risk the coastal central cities all over the world.

My summary 
      Researchers released a new study in Nature Climate Change point that in the process of investigation for how to underestimate the flooding accurately researchers discover the compound events consist of storm surge and high precipitation to trigger flooding significantly increase over the past 100 years.

This discovery urge scientists redesign the method to estimate the flood zone because the past scientists analyzed storm surge and high precipitation separately to define the flood zone.

The number of compound events risk the coastal cities that prone to be threatened by hurricanes and large storm especially for the East and Gulf coast.  In addition, sea level will raise by 10 feet above current levels within the next century in light of high greenhouse gases.  If the high emissions continuing, the huge vital coastal cities such as New York City, London will meet the risk of being covered by sea water or flooding and become uninhabitable.

(7/30)Abstract

What the influence is going to appears when storm surge occurs at the same time as high precipitation.

My summary 

      In the light of new study from Nature Climate Change, the traditional climate analyzing way points out the storm surge and high precipitation occur at the same time.
       Flood zones and devise preparedness planes was defined by researching the storm surges and high rainfall separately in the past.  However, this method discovers that storm surges occurs at the same time as high rainfall recent years.  It means that when storm surges come down it includes high precipitation, and bring compound disaster events for more than past 100 years.
     The risk of compound events tremendous varies from place to place such hurricane and enormous storm prone to visiting the East and Gulf coast than the West coast.  But the study warns that if the high emissions continues increasing, in this century we could view not mere storm surges and precipitation but the multi-meter sea level to flooding many significant coastal cities.

Original article:

http://time.com/3973256/flooding-risk-coastal-cities/

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