Coastal flooding: Impacts of coupled wave-surge-tide models

Natural Hazards

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 241-260

  Wolf, Judith ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal flooding; Numerical modelling; Storm surges; Tides; Wave current interaction; Wind waves

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; FLOODING; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN TIDE; OCEAN WAVE; STORM SURGE; WATER DEPTH; WATER LEVEL; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND WAVE;

EID: 64249089162     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9316-5     Document Type: Article

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