Freak waves in 2005

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1007-1015

  Didenkulova, I I ^a,b,c   Slunyaev, A V ^a   Pelinovsky, E N ^a,b   Kharif, C ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NIZHNY NOVGOROD STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY N A R E ALEKSEEV   (Russian Federation)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ANALYTICAL METHOD; COASTAL ZONE; FLOODING; OCEAN WAVE;

EID: 33845366294     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-6-1007-2006     Document Type: Article

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