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Estimating present day extreme water level exceedance probabilities around the coastline of Australia: tropical cyclone-induced storm surges and mean sea level

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In this paper we developed a novel methodology for combining estimates of the probabilities of extreme water levels arising from extra-tropical and tropical cyclones and used it to estimate, for the first time, present day extreme exceedence probabilities around the whole coastline of Australia. Results of the study are regularly being used by coastal engineers, managers and researchers via a web-based tool (www.sealevelrise.info) and we have given advice on applying this technique to other regions of the world, like the US and Canadian east coasts, that are subject to both extra-tropical and tropical cyclones.