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<meta name="DC.Description" content="Natural disasters such as the recent Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria highlight the need for quantitative estimates of the risk of such disasters. Statistically based risk assessment suffers from short records of often poor quality, and in the case of meteorological hazards, from the fact that the underlying climate is changing. This study shows how a recently developed physics-based risk assessment method can be applied to assessing the probabilities of extreme hurricane rainfall, allowing for quantitative assessment of hurricane flooding risks in all locations affected by such storms, regardless of the presence or quality of historical hurricane records.

We estimate, for current and future climates, the annual probability of areally averaged hurricane rain of Hurricane Harvey’s magnitude by downscaling large numbers of tropical cyclones from three climate reanalyses and six climate models. For the state of Texas, we estimate that the annual probability of 500 mm of area-integrated rainfall was about 1% in the period 1981–2000 and will increase to 18% over the period 2081–2100 under Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR5 representative concentration pathway 8.5. If the frequency of such event is increasingly linearly between these two periods, then in 2017 the annual probability would be 6%, a sixfold increase since the late 20th century." />
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We estimate, for current and future climates, the annual probability of areally averaged hurricane rain of Hurricane Harvey’s magnitude by downscaling large numbers of tropical cyclones from three climate reanalyses and six climate models. For the state of Texas, we estimate that the annual probability of 500 mm of area-integrated rainfall was about 1% in the period 1981–2000 and will increase to 18% over the period 2081–2100 under Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR5 representative concentration pathway 8.5. If the frequency of such event is increasingly linearly between these two periods, then in 2017 the annual probability would be 6%, a sixfold increase since the late 20th century." />
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&lt;p&gt;Natural disasters such as the recent Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria highlight the need for quantitative estimates of the risk of such disasters. Statistically based risk assessment suffers from short records of often poor quality, and in the case of meteorological hazards, from the fact that the underlying climate is changing. This study shows how a recently developed physics-based risk assessment method can be applied to assessing the probabilities of extreme hurricane rainfall, allowing for quantitative assessment of hurricane flooding risks in all locations affected by such storms, regardless of the presence or quality of historical hurricane records.&lt;/p&gt;" />
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This study shows how a recently developed physics-based risk assessment method can be applied to assessing the probabilities of extreme hurricane rainfall, allowing for quantitative assessment of hurricane flooding risks in all locations affected by such storms, regardless of the presence or quality of historical hurricane records.</p></div><div class="section abstract" id="abstract-2"><h2>Abstract</h2><p id="p-6">We estimate, for current and future climates, the annual probability of areally averaged hurricane rain of Hurricane Harvey’s magnitude by downscaling large numbers of tropical cyclones from three climate reanalyses and six climate models. For the state of Texas, we estimate that the annual probability of 500 mm of area-integrated rainfall was about 1% in the period 1981–2000 and will increase to 18% over the period 2081–2100 under Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR5 representative concentration pathway 8.5. If the frequency of such event is increasingly linearly between these two periods, then in 2017 the annual probability would be 6%, a sixfold increase since the late 20th century.</p></div><ul class="kwd-group"><li class="kwd"><a href="/keyword/hurricanes" class="hw-term hw-article-keyword hw-article-keyword-hurricanes" rel="nofollow">hurricanes</a></li><li class="kwd"><a href="/keyword/climate-change" class="hw-term hw-article-keyword hw-article-keyword-climate-change" rel="nofollow">climate change</a></li><li class="kwd"><a href="/keyword/floods" class="hw-term hw-article-keyword hw-article-keyword-floods" rel="nofollow">floods</a></li></ul><p id="p-7" class="flushleft">In the wake of a large disaster, it is natural to ask how likely it is that a disaster of comparable or greater magnitude will happen again. This question is especially pressing as reconstruction begins: Should buildings, homes, roads, and associated infrastructure be built in the same place again? If so, should they be built to the same standards as before or should more be spent to make them stronger? If possible, should measures be taken to mitigate the hazard… for example, should vegetation be cut back to lessen fire risk, or levees or sea walls built to mitigate floods?</p><p id="p-8">According to data provided by Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon, Hurricane Harvey produced the largest rainfall of any US hurricane on record. Much of the rain fell in the greater Houston metropolitan area, a low-lying region that has seen rapid growth in recent decades. The result was the largest natural disaster the nation has seen since Hurricane Katrina of 2005, killing at least 70 people, displacing many thousands, and causing damages that are expected to rise above $150 billion (<a id="xref-ref-1-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-1">1</a>). How likely is it that hurricane-induced flooding of Harvey’s magnitude will occur again?</p><p id="p-9">Traditionally, questions like these are addressed using statistics of past events, augmented by concepts such as the “probable maximum precipitation,” the theoretically greatest depth of precipitation for a given duration that is physically possible over a particular drainage area at a certain time of the year. But, there are serious limitations to such an approach (<a id="xref-ref-2-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-2">2</a>). First, the record of past events may be short, incomplete, and/or inaccurate. And second, if the underlying statistics are changing, the past may not be a good guide to the future.</p><p id="p-10">Since 1899, 11 hurricanes have produced point total rainfalls in excess of 65 cm (<a id="xref-ref-3-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-3">3</a>). Most recently, in 2015, the remnants of Hurricane Patricia dumped more than 50 cm of rain in parts of Texas. The relative rarity of rainfall of this magnitude compromises the accuracy of statistical risk assessments. Moreover, these data represent point measurements by rain gauges sampling very complex spatial and temporal distributions, thus limiting their ability to provide a representative measure of the storm’s actual areally integrated precipitation. Streamflow measurements integrate over area and provide a more robust measure of floods, but changing land use may introduce streamflow trends unrelated to rainfall.</p><p id="p-11">Changes in the underlying climate state further compromise statistical approaches to flood risk assessment. In particular, anthropogenic climate change is expected to lead to a greater incidence of high-intensity hurricanes, which together with rising sea level, will produce increased risk of storm surge flooding (<a id="xref-ref-4-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-4">4</a>, <a id="xref-ref-5-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-5">5</a>), while hurricanes are projected to produce substantially more precipitation as the atmosphere and oceans warm (<a id="xref-ref-5-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-5">5</a>).</p><p id="p-12">For all these reasons, researchers are turning to physically based computational models to supplement statistically based risk assessment and to make projections of future risk as the climate changes. Even global models can now be run for thousands of years, providing far more robust statistics than most historical records, and any sampling issues are modest by comparison. Model statistics can be quantitatively compared with historical records to help assess their accuracy. On the other hand, models are limited in spatial resolution and are forced to represent important unresolved processes parametrically. Thus, where possible, model output and historical observations should be combined judiciously to produce optimal assessments of risk.</p><p id="p-13">Hurricanes present a formidable challenge to risk modeling. To accurately simulate their intensity, models must have spatial resolutions of a few kilometers (<a id="xref-ref-6-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-6">6</a>), but to simulate many storms models must be run over large areas and for long periods of time. Current global models have spatial resolutions that, at best, are measured in tens of kilometers, but these can only be run for a few years.</p><p id="p-14">To circumvent this difficulty, the author and his colleagues developed a method of embedding a very high-resolution, specialized computational hurricane model in the time-evolving coarse-resolution states of global climate analyses or models (<a id="xref-ref-7-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-7">7</a><a id="xref-ref-8-1" class="xref-down-link" href="#ref-8"><span>⇓</span></a>–<a id="xref-ref-9-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-9">9</a>). Basically, the technique begins by randomly seeding with weak hurricane-like disturbances the large-scale, time-evolving state given by the global climate data. These seed disturbances are assumed to move with the large-scale flow in which they are embedded, plus a westward and poleward component owing to planetary curvature and rotation. Their intensity is calculated using a simple, circularly symmetric hurricane model coupled to a very simple upper-ocean model to account for the effects of upper-ocean mixing of cold water to the surface. Applied to the synthetically generated tracks, this model predicts that a large majority of seed storms dissipate owing to unfavorable environments. Only the “fittest” storms survive; thus, the technique relies on a kind of natural selection. The model is extremely fast and many thousands or tens of thousands of storms can easily be simulated. Extensive comparisons to historical events by Emanuel et al. (<a id="xref-ref-9-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-9">9</a>) and subsequent papers provide confidence that the statistical properties of the simulated events are consistent with those of historical tropical cyclones.</p><p id="p-15">Besides providing detailed records of winds and pressures along each track, the model can also be used to estimate storm rainfall, as described in more detail by Zhu et al. (<a id="xref-ref-10-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-10">10</a>). The rain produced by the model does not resolve individual convective storms, but can simulate the intense eyewall convection and the broad-scale precipitation outside the core. <a id="xref-fig-1-1" class="xref-fig" href="#F1">Fig. 1</a> shows an example of the accumulated precipitation from a simulated event that produced particularly extreme rainfall and whose track, like that of Hurricane Harvey, executed a U-turn over coastal Texas. Events like these, that linger over a particular region for a long time, tend to produce extreme precipitation. The patchiness of rainfall totals in the southwestern portion of the map is owing to the mountainous topography of northeast Mexico.</p><div id="F1" class="fig pos-float type-featured  odd"><div class="highwire-figure"><div class="fig-inline-img-wrapper"><div class="fig-inline-img"><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F1.large.jpg?width=800&amp;height=600&amp;carousel=1" title="Storm total rainfall (millimeters) from a simulated tropical cyclone driven by climate analysis data over the period 1980&#x2013;2016. This simulated event took place in August and September 2006. The track of the storm center is indicated by the back curve; it approached Texas from the southeast, moved slowly around a counterclockwise path in coastal Texas, and exited toward the southeast." class="highwire-fragment fragment-images colorbox-load" rel="gallery-fragment-images-289485229" data-figure-caption="&lt;div class=&quot;highwire-markup&quot;&gt;Storm total rainfall (millimeters) from a simulated tropical cyclone driven by climate analysis data over the period 1980&#x2013;2016. This simulated event took place in August and September 2006. 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</ul></div><div class="fig-caption" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="fig-label">Fig. 1.</span> <p id="p-16" class="first-child">Storm total rainfall (millimeters) from a simulated tropical cyclone driven by climate analysis data over the period 1980–2016. This simulated event took place in August and September 2006. The track of the storm center is indicated by the back curve; it approached Texas from the southeast, moved slowly around a counterclockwise path in coastal Texas, and exited toward the southeast.</p><div class="sb-div caption-clear"></div></div></div><div class="section results-discussion" id="sec-1"><h2 class="">Results and Discussion</h2><p id="p-17" class="flushleft">For this study, we first generated sets of 3,700 tropical cyclones over the period 1980–2016 from each of three gridded climate analyses: National Center for Atmospheric Research/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCAR/NCEP) Version 1, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA2), and the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Interim Reanalysis (ERA-Interim). Each of these events was selected from much larger sets on the basis of passing within 300 km of Houston, Texas, with peak winds speeds of at least 40 kn (22 m/s) while within 300 km of Houston. The technique requires a single calibration constant (the overall seeding rate) for each climate data set; in this case that constant was chosen to yield an average of 1.5 tropical cyclones per year within 300 km of Houston, based on historical hurricane data (<a id="xref-ref-11-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-11">11</a>).</p><p id="p-18"><a id="xref-fig-2-1" class="xref-fig" href="#F2">Fig. 2</a> shows the return periods associated with point rainfall at Houston, Texas. The return period is here defined as the inverse of the annual exceedance probability. The shading in the figure represents an SD (in frequency) up and down from the mean.</p><div id="F2" class="fig pos-float type-figure  odd"><div class="highwire-figure"><div class="fig-inline-img-wrapper"><div class="fig-inline-img"><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F2.large.jpg?width=800&amp;height=600&amp;carousel=1" title="Return periods of hurricane total rainfall (millimeters) at the single point of Houston, Texas, based on 3,700 simulated events each from three global climate analyses over the period 1980&#x2013;2016. The dots show the three-climate-set mean and the shading shows 1 SD in storm frequency, remapped into return periods." class="highwire-fragment fragment-images colorbox-load" rel="gallery-fragment-images-289485229" data-figure-caption="&lt;div class=&quot;highwire-markup&quot;&gt;Return periods of hurricane total rainfall (millimeters) at the single point of Houston, Texas, based on 3,700 simulated events each from three global climate analyses over the period 1980&#x2013;2016. The dots show the three-climate-set mean and the shading shows 1 SD in storm frequency, remapped into return periods.&lt;/div&gt;" data-icon-position="" data-hide-link-title="0"><span class="hw-responsive-img"><img class="highwire-fragment fragment-image lazyload" alt="Fig. 2." src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-src="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F2.medium.gif" width="440" height="338"/><noscript><img class="highwire-fragment fragment-image" alt="Fig. 2." src="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F2.medium.gif" width="440" height="338"/></noscript></span></a></div></div><ul class="highwire-figure-links inline"><li class="download-fig first"><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F2.large.jpg?download=true" class="highwire-figure-link highwire-figure-link-download" title="Download Fig. 2." data-icon-position="" data-hide-link-title="0">Download figure</a></li>
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</ul></div><div class="fig-caption"><span class="fig-label">Fig. 2.</span> <p id="p-19" class="first-child">Return periods of hurricane total rainfall (millimeters) at the single point of Houston, Texas, based on 3,700 simulated events each from three global climate analyses over the period 1980–2016. The dots show the three-climate-set mean and the shading shows 1 SD in storm frequency, remapped into return periods.</p><div class="sb-div caption-clear"></div></div></div><p id="p-20">Beyond about 450 mm of rain, the distribution flattens out and the SD among the three reanalyses increases greatly. This is owing to the paucity of events with rainfall of this magnitude. Harvey’s accumulated rain, averaging over records in the greater Houston metropolitan area, was around 840 mm (<a id="xref-ref-12-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-12">12</a>). Nevertheless, we here use the more conservative value of 500 mm to avoid the sparse tail of the distribution. According to <a id="xref-fig-2-2" class="xref-fig" href="#F2">Fig. 2</a>, the probability of rainfall larger than this magnitude is around once in 2,000 y. By the standards of the average climate during 1981–2000, Harvey’s rainfall in Houston was “biblical” in the sense that it likely occurred around once since the Old Testament was written.</p><p id="p-21">To assess the probability of Harvey-like rains in Texas as a whole, we used the same method to create another set of 3,700 synthetic tracks driven by NCAR/NCEP reanalyses over the period 1979–2015 and crossing any part of the Texas coastline. (We did not consider events entering Texas from Mexico or Louisiana.) We then calculated storm total rainfall for each event at each of 78 points constituting a grid extending from 26° N to 31° N and from 99° W to 94° W, at increments of 0.5°, but excluding points over the Gulf. For each event we determined the maximum storm total rainfall among the points on this grid. <a id="xref-fig-3-1" class="xref-fig" href="#F3">Fig. 3</a> shows the return periods for this statewide maximum hurricane rain.</p><div id="F3" class="fig pos-float type-figure  odd"><div class="highwire-figure"><div class="fig-inline-img-wrapper"><div class="fig-inline-img"><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F3.large.jpg?width=800&amp;height=600&amp;carousel=1" title="Return periods for hurricane storm total rainfall in the state of Texas, based on 3,700 simulated events from NCAR/NCEP reanalyses over the period 1979&#x2013;2015." class="highwire-fragment fragment-images colorbox-load" rel="gallery-fragment-images-289485229" data-figure-caption="&lt;div class=&quot;highwire-markup&quot;&gt;Return periods for hurricane storm total rainfall in the state of Texas, based on 3,700 simulated events from NCAR/NCEP reanalyses over the period 1979&#x2013;2015.&lt;/div&gt;" data-icon-position="" data-hide-link-title="0"><span class="hw-responsive-img"><img class="highwire-fragment fragment-image lazyload" alt="Fig. 3." src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-src="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F3.medium.gif" width="440" height="331"/><noscript><img class="highwire-fragment fragment-image" alt="Fig. 3." src="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F3.medium.gif" width="440" height="331"/></noscript></span></a></div></div><ul class="highwire-figure-links inline"><li class="download-fig first"><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F3.large.jpg?download=true" class="highwire-figure-link highwire-figure-link-download" title="Download Fig. 3." data-icon-position="" data-hide-link-title="0">Download figure</a></li>
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</ul></div><div class="fig-caption"><span class="fig-label">Fig. 3.</span> <p id="p-22" class="first-child">Return periods for hurricane storm total rainfall in the state of Texas, based on 3,700 simulated events from NCAR/NCEP reanalyses over the period 1979–2015.</p><div class="sb-div caption-clear"></div></div></div><p id="p-23">The return period of at least 500 mm of rainfall in the state of Texas is about 100 y, in the climate of the period 1981–2000.</p><p id="p-24">How will climate change influence the probability of Harvey-like rains? To answer this question, we applied the same technique to six global climate models: The National Center for Atmospheric Research CCSM4, the United Kingdom Meteorological Office Hadley Center HadGEM2-ES, the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace CM5A-LR, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology MIROC-5, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology MPI-ESM-MR, and the Japan Meteorological Institute MRI-CGCM3. For each model, 100 events were run for each of the years 1981–2000 from the historical climate simulations, and again for the period 2081–2100 under Representative Concentration Pathway RCP 8.5, which corresponds to essentially unmitigated growth of greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p id="p-25">A seventh model, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory CM3, was also used but yielded an increase in rain risk, from the early to the late period, that was far greater than any of the other six models and so was excluded from this analysis.</p><p id="p-26">The return periods of hurricane rainfall at Houston in the late 20th and late 21st centuries are shown in <a id="xref-fig-4-1" class="xref-fig" href="#F4">Fig. 4</a>, which may be compared with <a id="xref-fig-2-3" class="xref-fig" href="#F2">Fig. 2</a>. The shading once again represents the SD among the six models.</p><div id="F4" class="fig pos-float type-figure  odd"><div class="highwire-figure"><div class="fig-inline-img-wrapper"><div class="fig-inline-img"><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F4.large.jpg?width=800&amp;height=600&amp;carousel=1" title="Return periods of hurricane total rainfall (millimeters) at the single point of Houston, Texas, based on 3,700 simulated events each from six global climate models over the period 1981&#x2013;2000 from historical simulations (blue), and 2081&#x2013;2100 from RCP 8.5 simulations (red). The dots show the six-climate-set mean and the shading shows 1 SD in storm frequency, remapped into return periods." class="highwire-fragment fragment-images colorbox-load" rel="gallery-fragment-images-289485229" data-figure-caption="&lt;div class=&quot;highwire-markup&quot;&gt;Return periods of hurricane total rainfall (millimeters) at the single point of Houston, Texas, based on 3,700 simulated events each from six global climate models over the period 1981&#x2013;2000 from historical simulations (blue), and 2081&#x2013;2100 from RCP 8.5 simulations (red). The dots show the six-climate-set mean and the shading shows 1 SD in storm frequency, remapped into return periods.&lt;/div&gt;" data-icon-position="" data-hide-link-title="0"><span class="hw-responsive-img"><img class="highwire-fragment fragment-image lazyload" alt="Fig. 4." src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-src="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F4.medium.gif" width="440" height="313"/><noscript><img class="highwire-fragment fragment-image" alt="Fig. 4." src="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F4.medium.gif" width="440" height="313"/></noscript></span></a></div></div><ul class="highwire-figure-links inline"><li class="download-fig first"><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/11/07/1716222114/F4.large.jpg?download=true" class="highwire-figure-link highwire-figure-link-download" title="Download Fig. 4." data-icon-position="" data-hide-link-title="0">Download figure</a></li>
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</ul></div><div class="fig-caption"><span class="fig-label">Fig. 4.</span> <p id="p-27" class="first-child">Return periods of hurricane total rainfall (millimeters) at the single point of Houston, Texas, based on 3,700 simulated events each from six global climate models over the period 1981–2000 from historical simulations (blue), and 2081–2100 from RCP 8.5 simulations (red). The dots show the six-climate-set mean and the shading shows 1 SD in storm frequency, remapped into return periods.</p><div class="sb-div caption-clear"></div></div></div><p id="p-28">The 20th century rain return periods are very similar to those calculated from reanalyses over the same period (<a id="xref-fig-2-4" class="xref-fig" href="#F2">Fig. 2</a>), except for amounts above about 450 mm for which there are too few events in any of the event sets to make robust statistical estimates.</p><p id="p-29">Rainfall in excess of 500 mm, which is around a once in 2,000-y event in the late 20th century, becomes a once in a 100-y event by the end of this century. If we were to assume that the frequency of hurricane rain is changing linearly between the period 1981–2000 and the period 2081–2100, then the return period of rainfall in excess of 500 m in the year 2017 would be about 325 y.</p><p id="p-30">If we assume that the area covered by individual hurricane rainstorms does not change much as a result of climate change, we can use <a id="xref-fig-2-5" class="xref-fig" href="#F2">Figs. 2</a> and <a id="xref-fig-3-2" class="xref-fig" href="#F3">3</a> to convert between Houston and Texas rain probabilities. Applying this to <a id="xref-fig-4-2" class="xref-fig" href="#F4">Fig. 4</a>, hurricane rains in excess of 500 mm in Texas would evolve from about a once in 100-y event at the end of the 20th century to a once in 5.5-y occurrence by the end of this century. A linear increase in frequency would yield a 2017 return period for rainfall in excess of 500 mm in Texas of about 16 y.</p><p id="p-31">These large increases in probabilities are consistent with expectations about what happened to tail risk as the distribution of events is shifted toward the tail (<a id="xref-ref-13-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-13">13</a>). It would be of some interest to evaluate how these increases are related to greater water vapor concentration, stronger upward motion in storms, longer duration of events, and greater frequency of events. This is left to future work.</p></div><div class="section ack" id="ack-1"><h2>Acknowledgments</h2><p id="p-32">I am grateful for additional thoughtful reviews by Michael Mann and Adam Sobel. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant AGS-1520683.</p></div><div class="section fn-group" id="fn-group-1"><h2>Footnotes</h2><ul class="pnas-footnotes"><li class="corresp" id="corresp-1"><a class="rev-xref" href="#xref-corresp-1-1">↵</a><sup>1</sup>Email: <span class="em-link"><span class="em-addr">emanuel{at}mit.edu</span></span>.</li></ul><ul><li class="fn-other" id="fn-2"><p id="p-2">Author contributions: K.E. wrote the paper.</p></li><li class="fn-other" id="fn-3"><p id="p-3">Reviewers: C.L.B., University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; E.F.-G., University of California, Irvine; and J.A.S., Princeton University.</p></li><li class="fn-conflict" id="fn-4"><p id="p-33">Conflict of interest statement: K.E. is an officer of WindRiskTech, LLC, a firm that provides hurricane risk assessments to clients worldwide. 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