Water level response to 1999 Hurricane Floyd in the Chesapeake Bay

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 2484-2502

  Shen, Jian ^a   Gong, Wenping ^a   Wang, Harry V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

ADCIRC; Chesapeake Bay; Hurricane Floyd; Storm surge; Tide surge interaction

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; HURRICANE; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; RESOLUTION; TIDE; WATER LEVEL;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750430850     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2006.07.021     Document Type: Article

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