TY  - JOUR
A1  - Böttle, Markus
A1  - Rybski, Diego
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - How changing sea level extremes and protection measures alter coastal flood damages
JF  - Water resources research
N2  - While sea level rise is one of the most likely consequences of climate change, the provoked costs remain highly uncertain. Based on a block-maxima approach, we provide a stochastic framework to estimate the increase of expected damages with sea level rise as well as with meteorological changes and demonstrate the application to two case studies. In addition, the uncertainty of the damage estimations due to the stochastic nature of extreme events is studied. Starting with the probability distribution of extreme flood levels, we calculate the distribution of implied damages in a specific region employing stage-damage functions. Universal relations of the expected damages and their standard deviation, which demonstrate the importance of the shape of the damage function, are provided. We also calculate how flood protection reduces the damages leading to a more complex picture, where the extreme value behavior plays a fundamental role. Citation: Boettle, M., D. Rybski, and J. P. Kropp (2013), How changing sea level extremes and protection measures alter coastal flood damages, Water Resour. Res., 49, 1199-1210, doi: 10.1002/wrcr.20108.
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.20108
SN  - 0043-1397
VL  - 49
IS  - 3
SP  - 1199
EP  - 1210
PB  - American Geophysical Union
CY  - Washington
ER  -