Wave climate and coastal processes in the Osmussaar-Neugrund region, Baltic Sea

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 149, Issue , 2011, Pages 99-110

  Suursaar, U ^a   Szava Kovats, R ^b   Tonisson H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal dynamics; Impact crater; Wave hindcast

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL LANDFORM; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CRATER; DEPTH; HINDCASTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN WAVE; OCEANIC CURRENT; WAVE CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF FINLAND;

EID: 79960154796     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/CP110091     Document Type: Article

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