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Can AI help coastal cities prepare for rising seas and extreme events?

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 1043 words · By Andrea Ficchì; Emiliano Longo
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What to know about Can AI help coastal cities prepare for rising seas and extreme events?

Researchers have developed an AI emulator designed to predict extreme storm surges more efficiently than traditional physics-based models. The study, focusing on New York City, suggests that combining AI with physical simulations can improve coastal flood risk assessment and adaptation planning for future climate conditions.

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Our novel artificial intelligence model can predict extreme storm surges with high accuracy, including under future climate conditions.

Why it matters

Because the AI model runs much faster, it can help researchers and practitioners better assess coastal flood risk for adaptation planning.

Common ground

Sea levels are rising, and with them, the risks posed by extreme coastal events, such as storm surges – temporary rises in sea level caused mainly by storms, which are among the primary drivers of coastal flooding.

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Researchers have developed an AI emulator designed to predict extreme storm surges more efficiently than traditional physics-based models. The study, focusing on New York City, suggests that combining AI with physical simulations can improve coastal flood risk assessment and adaptation planning for future climate conditions.

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Claim 1: “In our recent study published in Earth’s Future, we investigated whether AI-based models can accurately predict extreme sea level events, when trained to emulate the outputs of physics-based simulations and projections.”
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Claim 2: “Before 2025, the global science philanthropy was held by the AXA Research Fund, which has supported over 750 projects around the world since its inception back in 2007.”
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There is a contradiction regarding the inception date and project count. Two sources state the AXA Research Fund started in 2007 and supported over 750 projects, while a 2023 official registration document states it launched in 2008 and supported 257 projects focused on climate/environment (though the latter may be a subset of total projects).
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Claim 3: “For the more than 10% of the global population living in low-lying coastal regions, the combination of gradual mean sea level rise and increasingly intense extreme events represents a growing threat.”
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Claim 4: “Our AI emulator relies on openly available physics-based simulations from the Global Tide and Surge Model (GTSM)”
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Claim 5: “The AXA science philanthropy is now part of the AXA Foundation for Human Progress”
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Claim 6: “We focused on the New York City coastal area as a case study... it has experienced devastating storm surges in recent history, such as during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which caused many fatalities and over $60 billion in economic damage.”
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