Evaluation of future sea level rise impacts in Pärnu/Estonia

Special Paper of the Geological Survey of Finland

Volumn , Issue 41, 2006, Pages 71-81

  Klein, Johannes ^a   Staudt, Michael ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coping capacity; Estonia; Floods coastal environment; P rnu; Risk assessment; Sea level changes; Transgression

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VULNERABILITY;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; PARNU BAY;

EID: 33744804260     PISSN: 07828535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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