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Projected change in the frequency of historical 1-in-100 year coastal flooding events by 2100
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Created 30 Nov 2022
Published 16 Dec 2022
Last modified 16 Dec 2022
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This maps show the estimated multiplication factor, by which the frequency of flooding events of a given height changes between 2010 and 2100 due to projected regional sea relative level rise under the RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 scenarios. Values larger than 1 indicate an increase in flooding frequency.
Adapted from Figure 4.12 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere (SROCC).
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Dimensionless (frequency amplification factor)
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Sea-level data from tide gauges in the GESLA2 (Global Extreme Sea Level Analysis version 2) database (Woodworth et al., 2017).
Sea-level rise projections are based on the CMIP5 ensemble of global climate models.
RCP: Representative Concentration Pathways
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2010-2100
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