Numerical modeling and field evidence of coastal overwash in southern New England from Hurricane Bob and implications for paleotempestology

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Cheung, Kwok Fai ^a   Tang, Liujuan ^b   Donnelly, Jeffrey P ^c   Scileppi, Elyse M ^d   Liu, Kam Biu ^e   Mao, Xian Zhong ^f   Houston, Samuel H ^g   Murnane, Richard J ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g National Weather Service   (United States)

^h BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CORRELATION; HURRICANE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; STORMWATER; SURFACE PRESSURE; TIDE GAUGE; TRACKING; WATER LEVEL;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36248951558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000612     Document Type: Article

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