Global warming and hurricanes: The potential impact of hurricane intensification and sea level rise on coastal flooding

Climatic Change

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 575-597

  Mousavi, Mir Emad ^a   Irish, Jennifer L ^a   Frey, Ashley E ^a   Olivera, Francisco ^a   Edge, Billy L ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL FLOODING; CORPUS CHRISTI; FLOOD ELEVATIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE; HURRICANE INTENSIFICATION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SEA LEVEL RISE; STORM SURGES; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA LEVEL; STORMS;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FLOODING; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM SURGE;

CORPUS CHRISTI; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651444169     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9790-0     Document Type: Article

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