Open AccessHistory of storm surge in Florida strongly underestimated
Author(s) -
Schultz Colin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo430007
Subject(s) - storm surge , storm , atlantic hurricane , oceanography , geography , climatology , geology , archaeology
The observational hurricane record for northwestern Florida is just 160 years long, yet hurricane activity is known to vary strongly over thousands of years. Digging back into the prehistoric hurricane record, Lin et al. found that scientists' reliance on such a narrow slice of observations has led them to severely underestimate the frequency with which large hurricanes have slammed into Florida's Gulf Coast.