Skew Surge and Storm Tides of Tropical Cyclones in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays for 1980–2019

• Published in: Frontiers in Climate
• Main Authors: John A. Callahan, Daniel J. Leathers, Christina L. Callahan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
• Subjects: tropical cyclone; hurricane; Mid-Atlantic; storm surge; coastal flooding; tidal analysis; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Lower Bay; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.610062; https://doaj.org/article/10c91766f1a24dc19ca8bf1edba3a17d

Coastal flooding poses the greatest threat to human life and is often the most common source of damage from coastal storms. From 1980 to 2020, the top 6, and 17 of the top 25, costliest natural disasters in the U.S. were caused by coastal storms, most of these tropical systems. The Delaware and Ches...