@article{ref1,
title="Flood risk influenced by the compound effect of storm surge and rainfall under climate change for low-lying coastal areas",
journal="Science of the total environment",
year="2020",
author="Hsiao, Shih-Chun and Chiang, Wen-Son and Jang, Jiun-Huei and Wu, Han-Lun and Lu, Wei-Shiun and Chen, Wei-Bo and Wu, Yun-Ta",
volume="764",
number="",
pages="e144439-e144439",
abstract="Under climate change, compound flooding has resulted in severe disasters in coastal areas around the world. In this study, an integrated framework is proposed to  determine the range of compound flood risk without the requirement of joint  probability analysis between storm surge and rainfall. In the framework, the flood  risks are analyzed under four extreme scenarios with/without the compound effect of  storm surge and rainfall in the past and the future. From the end of the 20th  century to the middle of the 21st century, the worst scenario shows that the flood  area significantly increases by 92% for the low-lying coastal areas in southwest  Taiwan under the compound effect of storm surge and rainfall if they are fully  correlated. In the most optimistic scenario, the flood area slightly increases by  15% without compound effect (only storm surge is considered). To coastal flooding,  the synchronization of storm surge and rainfall contributes much more than the  climate-induced amplification of individual factors. When storm surge and rainfall  happen at the same time, the extent and duration of flooding increase simultaneously  under the influence of pluvial and surge-induced flooding. Risk analysis shows an  obvious increase of risk level for villages originally at low risks, which require  integrated countermeasures against the consequence brought by compound flooding in  the future. The framework can be applied in other low-lying coastal areas to  quantify the potential impacts on human and environment caused by compound flooding  under climate change.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0048-9697",
doi="10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144439",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144439"
}