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Modeling Mobile Bay: measuring salt marshes' role in flood risk reduction
Frontiers in Marine Science | New and Recent Articles

Modeling Mobile Bay: measuring salt marshes' role in flood risk reduction

Salt marshes are not passive landscapes. They are active agents in flood defense, yet their protective power has limits. New numerical modeling of Mobile Bay, Alabama, simulates tropical cyclone conditions to measure how marsh vegetation, represented through bottom roughness, alters flood hazards. The findings are clear: during extreme hurricanes, attenuation benefits shrink, but under moderate storm scenarios, flood severity drops by roughly 21%. This is the kind of empirical, decision-ready insight managers need.