Characterisation of Storm Surge Risk in Atlantic Canada and the Eastern United States for Insurance and Coastal Stakeholders

Increases in sea-level due to human-driven global warming have brought coastal flooding to the forefront of coastal community planning and policymaking. In addition to increasing sea level, tropical and extratropical cyclones drive surge events that push tremendous amounts of seawater onto the coast and cause a wide variety of damage to people, property and ecosystems. Such surge events are an important source of flood risk in coastal regions of Atlantic Canada. This project proposes to build a surge model forced by cyclonic storms that is based on a tropical cyclone risk model that we are currently using, and to employ this model to construct a catalogue of storm surge events for the eastern Canadian and American coastlines.