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Hurricanes
Hurricanes are often detrimental to coastal ecosystems due to the destructive power of storm surge, high winds and flooding from excessive rainfall that can damage or bury structure such as that provided by coral reefs and seagrass beds or alter salinity distribution in estuaries to the detriment of organisms associated with these structures.
Retrospective Assessment and Ecoforecasting of Hurricane Effects in the Coastal Ocean
NCCOS studies environmental data from high accuracy satellite images to better understand how hurricanes change the coastal ocean and how these changes can impact marine habitats of Coastal Ecosystems of the southeastern USA.