EGU21-7564
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7564
EGU General Assembly 2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Coastal extreme sea levels in the Caribbean Sea induced by tropical cyclones

Ariadna Martín1, Angel Amores1, Alejandro Orfila2, and Marta Marcos1
Ariadna Martín et al.
  • 1University of the Balearic Islands, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Spain (ariadna.martin2@estudiant.uib.cat)
  • 2Spanish National Research Council, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Spain

Every year the Caribbean Sea faces the passage of powerful tropical cyclones that generate coastal extreme sea levels with potential strong and hazardous impacts. In this work we simulate the storm surges and wind-waves induced by a set of over 1000 tropical cyclones over the Caribbean Sea that are representative of the present-day climate and that have been extracted from a global database of synthetic hurricanes spanning a 10,000-year period. The atmospheric forcing fields, built from the synthetic tropical cyclones, are used to feed a fully coupled hydrodynamic-wave model with high resolution (~1 km) along the continental and island coasts. Given the large number of events modelled, the outputs allow detailed statistical analyses of the magnitude and mechanisms of coastal extreme sea levels as well as the identification of most exposed areas to both storm surges and large wind-waves.

How to cite: Martín, A., Amores, A., Orfila, A., and Marcos, M.: Coastal extreme sea levels in the Caribbean Sea induced by tropical cyclones, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-7564, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7564, 2021.

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