A comparison of the 31 January–1 February 1953 and 5–6 December 2013 coastal flood events around the UK

1 Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 2 School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering and the UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia, 3 Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 4 National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK, 5 ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd, Southampton, UK, 6 Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia, 7 Channel Coastal Observatory, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK, 8 British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK