Assessment of extreme wave flooding from geomorphologic evidence in Bonaire (Netherlands antilles)

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages 219-245

  Pignatelli, Cosimo ^a   Scheffers, Anja ^b   Scheffers, Sander ^b   Mastronuzzi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bonaire; Coastal roughness; Hydrodynamic equations; Inundation; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BOULDER; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; TSUNAMI; WATER WAVE; WAVE HEIGHT;

BONAIRE; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

EID: 79960481765     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2010/0054S3-0026     Document Type: Article

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