Hurricane frequency and landfall distribution for coastal wetlands of the Gulf coast, USA

Wetlands

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-43

  Doyle, Thomas W ^a  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance regimes; HURASIM; Landfall rates; Modeling; Recurrence probability; Retrospective analysis; Spatial simulation; Tropical storms

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WETLAND; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM DAMAGE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77749314819     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/08-36.1     Document Type: Article

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