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Historic Storms Detected in a Changing Environment over Recent Centuries in the Belle Henriette Lagoon

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This paper explores extreme storms with marine flooding events in historical times. It focuses on the challenges associated with detecting these events with a degree of certainty in a changing environment. The paleoenvironmental changes which turned the Gulf of Pictons into the Belle Henriette lagoon have required the reconstruction of events to be based on cored sediments. This study aims to establish how sedimentological washovers can be detected in a depositional environment that has changed profoundly over recent centuries. The Belle Henriette lagoon site is unique. Despite the profound environmental changes that have taken place, the impact of storms was well preserved in the five cores extracted. Eighteen historical extreme storms with marine floods were detected in the sediment. By cross-referencing with historical archives, thirteen storms were estimated in 1990, 1940, 1896, 1876, 1859, 1838, 1820, 1811, 1751, 1711, 1645, 1469, and 1351. Five older storms dating back to 1090, 1036, 941, 809, and 581 will also be discussed. By conducting a thorough historical review, we can conclude that these extreme storms caused significant damage and had a profound impact on the socioeconomic coastal communities.
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hal-03533798 , version 1 (19-01-2022)

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Mohamed Maanan, Pierre Pouzet, Sabine Schmidt, Marc Robin. Historic Storms Detected in a Changing Environment over Recent Centuries in the Belle Henriette Lagoon. Atmosphere, 2022, 13 (2), pp.151. ⟨10.3390/atmos13020151⟩. ⟨hal-03533798⟩
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