Inundation Risk Assessment for Nagapatinam Coast, Tamil Nadu, Southeast Coast of India - Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change - page 360

Fig. 2: Digital Elevation model.
to various reasons such as global warming, storm surges, tsunami, etc. Kalsi
et al. (2007) reported that the Probable Maximum Storm Surge (PMSS) above
high tide level in Nagapattinam coastal belt is 4.2 m; Murthy et al. (2006)
reported run up along the Tamil Nadu coast to range from 2.6 to 5.6 m during
December 2004 tsunami; Unnikrisnan et al. (2006) reports an average annual
sea level increase of 1 mm along the Indian coast. Considering these facts,
inundation maps were prepared using the Spatial Analyst.