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Assessment Of Sea Level Rise In Middlesex County And Its Influence On Future Storm Surges And Waterfront Property, Jason Chen

Student Writing

There is currently an upward trend of sea level rise in the Chesapeake Bay region and many other areas around the world. Sea level rise in itself is a major impact on the environment and humans, and it has become a factor in the severity of other natural disasters like hurricanes. With increasing sea level rise, storm surges are much higher, and together with wind driven waves will cause more destruction to the coast. The 1933 hurricane was considerably stronger than Hurricane Isabel, creating record high tide level from storm surge, but because of the 42.7 cm increase in average …