Quantifying the contribution of mesoscale SSH features to flooding of islands in the Pacific Ocean

Anup Nambiathody1, Angelica R Rodriguez1, Philip R Thompson2, Mark A Merrifield3, Matthew R Mazloff4, Dimitris Menemenlis5 and Benjamin Hamlington1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)CIMAR, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, (5)San Jose State University, San Jose, United States