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From: Modeling multiple sea level rise stresses reveals up to twice the land at risk compared to strictly passive flooding methods

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Between April–August, 2017, an episodic sea level anomaly, combined with long-term SLR triggered (a) up to ~27 cm of difference between predicted tides and observed water levels66. This heightened water level led to (b) salt water intruding storm drains, (c) urban flooding, (d) wave inundation (Waikīkī, O‘ahu), (e) episodic erosion (exposing a watering system), and (f) roadway flooding near wetlands due to groundwater inundation. (Photos: Hawai‘i Sea Grant King Tides Project, http://ccsr.seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu/king-tides).

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