Fig. 3: Storm tide level return periods. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 3: Storm tide level return periods.

From: Accounting for tropical cyclones more than doubles the global population exposed to low-probability coastal flooding

Fig. 3

The panels show the (a) 25-year storm tide return period, (b) crossover return period at which tropical cyclones start to exceed extratropical cyclone storm tide levels, and Weibull’s plot showing tropical (blue) and extratropical cyclone (red) storm tide return periods, together with the sum (black), at (c) New York, (d) The Hague, (e) Quanzhou, (f) Montevideo, (g) Toamasina, and (h) Cairns.

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