Spatial and temporal variability of coastal storms in the North Atlantic Basin

Marine Geology

Volumn 210, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 7-15

  Keim, Barry D ^a   Muller, Robert A ^a   Stone, Gregory W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

extratropical storms; temporal variability; tropical storms; wave climatology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

BEACHES; DATA REDUCTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANES; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

COASTAL ZONE; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STORM; WAVE ACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 4344683127     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2003.12.006     Document Type: Article

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