The surge is ahead of the storm, so it doesn’t matter how intense the storm is when it hits land. What matters is how strong the storm is hours before it hits land.
“The surge is ahead of the storm, so it doesn’t matter how intense the storm is when it hits land. What matters is how strong the storm is hours before it hits land.”
RIGHT... there’s probably some kind of time-decaying integral taking into account pressure and area that should be applied ... That is probably published somewhere in the literature.