Quadrado, G., & Serafin, K. (2024). The timing, magnitude, and relative composition of extreme total water levels vary seasonally along the U.S. Atlantic coast. JGR Oceans, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020557.
This paper investigates when extreme total water levels (TWLs) occur during the year along the U.S. Atlantic coast and whether individual components, like waves, tides, and storm surge, contributing to TWLs vary across regions and during the year. We also compare return levels of TWLs for annual maxima and peak-over-threshold events with the tropical and extratropical seasons to explore the impact of using a single statistical population when the underlying data comes from both extratropical and tropical storm seasons. Overall, our study identifies gradients in spatial and seasonal patterns of the drivers of extreme TWLs along the U.S. Atlantic coast, which is critically important for understanding how large-scale changes to storm systems may contribute differently to local coastal hazards along open sandy coastlines.