Impacts of climate change and sea-level rise on cyclonic storm surge floods in Bangladesh

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 490-500

  Karim, Mohammed Fazlul ^a   Mimura, Nobuo ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bangladesh; Climate change; Cyclone; Flood; Sea level rise; Storm surge

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLONE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOODING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM SURGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 53049091545     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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