Coastal
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In the past week I’ve seen two very interesting stories about the increase in coastal flooding in recent years. NASA News reported that while the threat of rising seas due to warming oceans is very real, the phenomenon of large coastal cities sinking has not been well reported. Extraction of groundwater or fossil fuels, and…
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Harrison Sincavage posted an article at iWeatherNet today about the shocking (to me and other meteorologist friends) statement that the National Hurricane Center put out about the expected impacts of Hurricane Katrina, which was approaching maximum storm intensity in the Gulf of Mexico on this date eleven years ago today. If you’ve never read the warning,…
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While sea ice in Antarctica has seen some increases in recent years (although small compared to the losses of sea ice in the Arctic, which is losing ice at about ten times the rate that Antarctica is gaining it), the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica has seen some troubling trends in recent years.…
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If you live along the coast, you are probably painfully aware of the threat of rising sea levels and what it could do to your communities. Sea levels have been observed to rise in most places by several different independent data sources, including both surface-based gauges and satellite imagery. Sea level rise has also been…
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The Washington Post had a thoughtful article today about how Hoboken NJ is dealing with development along the seafront following the devastation from Hurricane Sandy. This is particularly important because of the risks from sea level rise in the coming decades, which will make inundation along the coastline more frequent in the future. Many coastal…
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A recently-released study of sea level rise measured by satellite altimetry shows a troubling hint of an accelerating upward trend in the already rising sea levels which may mean that coastal areas could be swamped sooner and more frequently than was previously predicted. You can read the original paper in Nature‘s Scientific Reports at https://www.nature.com/articles/srep31245. The…
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The Capital Weather Gang has a thoughtful article today describing the current drought of major hurricanes hitting the US and why it is so worrisome. The streak has reached 3,939 days, two years longer than any previous drought. The drought for Florida is more than ten years, and for Georgia much longer than that. The…