Coastal flooding may seem unpredictable, a natural disaster that occurs randomly. But UCF researcher Ivan Haigh has found that recurrent coastal floods occur at highly predictable times.
Floods on coasts often appear to be accidental. However, they accumulate in time-shaped regions at certain times of the day, as an analysis of long-term levels and flooding data from the USA and Great Britain shows. Where weather and storm floods dominate more strongly, this daily rhythm is weaker. Wageningen (Netherlands). Coast flooding often occurs when astronomical tides occur on wind, storm floods, waves or [...] The article Coast flooding …