Decadal changes in wave climate and sea level regime: The main causes of the recent intensification of coastal geomorphic processes along the coasts of Western Estonia?

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 126, Issue , 2009, Pages 105-116

  Suursaar, U ^a   Kullas, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Climate change; Sea level; Storm surges; Trends; Wave climate; Wave hindcast

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DECADAL VARIATION; HINDCASTING; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SIMULATION; STORM SURGE; TIDE GAUGE; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 71649085988     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/CP090101     Document Type: Article

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