The impact of sea level rise and climate change on inshore wave climate: A case study for East Anglia (UK)

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 973-984

  Chini, Nicolas ^a,b   Stansby, Peter ^a,b   Leake, James ^a,c   Wolf, Judith ^a,c   Roberts Jones, Jonah ^a,d   Lowe, Jason ^a,d  

^a TYNDALL CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme value distribution; Significant wave height; Storm surges

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATIC SCENARIOS; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL REGIONS; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; EXTREME WAVE HEIGHTS; EXTREME WAVES; FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCES; INSHORE WAVE CLIMATE; MEAN SEA LEVEL; NEARSHORES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OFFSHORE WAVES; SEA BED; SEA LEVEL RISE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; STORM SURGES; WATER DEPTH; WAVE STATISTICS;

COASTAL ZONES; FLOODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; WATER WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BATHYMETRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EXTREME EVENT; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; STORM SURGE; TIDE; WATER DEPTH; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EAST ANGLIA; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77956343058     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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