Climate change projections of sea level extremes along the California coast

Climatic Change

Volumn 87, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2007, Pages

  Cayan, Daniel R ^a,b   Bromirski, Peter D ^a   Hayhoe, Katharine ^c   Tyree, Mary ^a   Dettinger, Michael D ^a,b   Flick, Reinhard E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d California Department of Boating and Waterways   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL TIDES; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; GLOBAL MODELING; HISTORICAL TRENDS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; ESTUARIES; GREENHOUSE GASES; TIDES;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 51749121400     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9376-7     Document Type: Article

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