NPCC4: Climate change and New York City's flood risk

B Rosenzweig, FA Montalto, P Orton, J Kaatz, N Maher… - 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter of the New York City Panel on Climate Change 4 (NPCC4) report provides a
comprehensive description of the different types of flood hazards (pluvial, fluvial, coastal …

Measuring and Interpreting the Surface and Shallow Subsurface Process Influences on Coastal Wetland Elevation: A Review

DR Cahoon - Estuaries and Coasts, 2024 - Springer
A century ago, measuring elevation in tidal wetlands proved difficult, as survey leveling of
soft marsh soils relative to a fixed datum was error prone. For 60 years, vertical accretion …

Attaining freshwater and estuarine-water soil saturation in an ecosystem-scale coastal flooding experiment

AM Hopple, KO Doro, VL Bailey… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Coastal upland forests are facing widespread mortality as sea-level rise accelerates and
precipitation and storm regimes change. The loss of coastal forests has significant …

Surface elevation change dynamics in coastal marshes along the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Anticipating effects of rising sea-level and intensifying hurricanes

JA Moon, LC Feher, TC Lane, WC Vervaeke… - Wetlands, 2022 - Springer
Accelerated sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes highlight the need to better
understand surface elevation change in coastal wetlands. We used the surface elevation …

Resistance, resilience, and recovery of salt marshes in the Florida Panhandle following Hurricane Michael

KA Castagno, T Tomiczek, CC Shepard, MW Beck… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Characterizing the fragility, resistance, and resilience of marshes is critical for understanding
their role in reducing storm damages and for helping to manage the recovery of these …

Twenty-year record of salt marsh elevation dynamics in response to sea-level rise and storm-driven barrier island geomorphic processes: Fire Island, NY, USA

CT Roman, JC Lynch, DR Cahoon - Estuaries and Coasts, 2024 - Springer
Twenty years of surface elevation table and marker horizon monitoring at three sites along
the Fire Island (New York, USA) barrier island indicates that rates of marsh surface elevation …

Nonlinear patterns of surface elevation change in coastal wetlands: The value of generalized additive models for quantifying rates of change

LC Feher, MJ Osland, DJ Johnson, JB Grace… - Estuaries and …, 2024 - Springer
In the face of accelerating climate change and rising sea levels, quantifying surface
elevation change dynamics in coastal wetlands can help to develop a more complete …

Suboptimal rootzone growth prevents Long Island (NY) salt marshes from keeping pace with sea level rise

N Maher, A Starke - Estuaries and Coasts, 2024 - Springer
Salt marsh habitat loss and conversion are well documented across the marine-coastal
district of New York. Regionally, these losses are characterized by marsh edge erosion …

Atmospheric river storm flooding influences tidal marsh elevation building processes

K Thorne, S Jones, C Freeman… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Disturbances are a key component of ecological processes in coastal ecosystems.
Investigating factors that affect tidal marsh accretion and elevation change is important …

Comparing vertical change in Riverine, Bayside, and Barrier Island Wetland soils in response to acute and chronic disturbance in Apalachicola Bay, FL

HE Steinmuller, E Bourque, SB Lucas… - Estuaries and …, 2024 - Springer
Coastal wetlands experience acute and chronic disturbances which can affect rates of
surface elevation change and vertical accretion of surface sediments. Disturbance can either …