coastal floods
Seaside water surges
Coastal floods occur when ocean water inundates normally dry land along shorelines.
Storm surges, high tides, and tsunamis can all cause coastal flooding, often with devastating effects on low-lying communities: Coastal floods displaced thousands after the hurricane.
Climate change and rising sea levels have increased the frequency and severity of such events.
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- storm surgeWind-driven coastal flooding
- stormSevere atmospheric disturbance
- tideOcean's cyclical swell
- high tideMaximum sea level
king tide · tsunami · seawall · erosion · hurricane · levee · inundation · saltwater · water damage · breach · evacuation · evacuation route · sandbags · barrier · waves · shoreline · devastation · overflow
- floodsdeluge, floodplains, floodgate, rising waters, overflow
- sea weathersea fog, gale warnings, storm surge, wave height, wind speed
- Dutch Waterworkspolders, dikes, land reclamation, water management, dykes
- disastersdisaster, earthquake, earthquakes, catastrophe, calamity
coastal floodscoastal retreat
Vacation near the sea
drawback · receding waters · ebb tide · ebb
coast, coasts, coasted, coasting, coastal, coastline, coastlines, flood, floods