Probabilistic coastal vulnerability assessment to storms at regional scale - Application to Catalan beaches (NW Mediterranean)

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 475-484

  Bosom, E ^a   Jimenez J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STORM DAMAGE; STORM SURGE; VULNERABILITY; WAVE FIELD;

CATALONIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST); SPAIN;

EID: 79951797654     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-475-2011     Document Type: Article

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