Design parameters for coastal dikes - Case study: Meldorf Bight on the German North Sea

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 469-479

  Loffredo, Layla ^a,b   Schulz, Dirk ^a   Wilkens, Jort ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Estuaries and Dredging   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal dikes; Design water level; Wave modelling; Wave run up; Wave transformation

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; LEVEES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVES;

COASTAL STRUCTURE; DEEP WATER; DESIGN; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL; WAVE MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MELDORF BIGHT; NORTH SEA;

EID: 36749072154     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-007-9040-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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