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| Title |
Extreme oceanographic forcing and coastal response due to the 2015–2016 El Niño
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| Published in |
Nature Communications, February 2017
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms14365 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Patrick L. Barnard, Daniel Hoover, David M. Hubbard, Alex Snyder, Bonnie C. Ludka, Jonathan Allan, George M. Kaminsky, Peter Ruggiero, Timu W. Gallien, Laura Gabel, Diana McCandless, Heather M. Weiner, Nicholas Cohn, Dylan L. Anderson, Katherine A. Serafin |
| Abstract |
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation is the dominant mode of interannual climate variability across the Pacific Ocean basin, with influence on the global climate. The two end members of the cycle, El Niño and La Niña, force anomalous oceanographic conditions and coastal response along the Pacific margin, exposing many heavily populated regions to increased coastal flooding and erosion hazards. However, a quantitative record of coastal impacts is spatially limited and temporally restricted to only the most recent events. Here we report on the oceanographic forcing and coastal response of the 2015-2016 El Niño, one of the strongest of the last 145 years. We show that winter wave energy equalled or exceeded measured historical maxima across the US West Coast, corresponding to anomalously large beach erosion across the region. Shorelines in many areas retreated beyond previously measured landward extremes, particularly along the sediment-starved California coast. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 43 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 13 | 30% |
| Australia | 3 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 7% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Poland | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 19 | 44% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 30 | 70% |
| Scientists | 9 | 21% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 7% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 298 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 295 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 69 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 51 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 41 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 33 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 4% |
| Other | 34 | 11% |
| Unknown | 57 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 78 | 26% |
| Environmental Science | 65 | 22% |
| Engineering | 33 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 3% |
| Other | 17 | 6% |
| Unknown | 80 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 395. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 November 2023.
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#1,963
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