Extracting storm-surge data from coastal dunes for improved assessment of flood risk

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1063-1066

  Cunningham, Alastair C ^a   Bakker, Marcel A J ^b   Van Heteren, Sytze ^b   Van Der Valk, Bert ^c   Van Der Spek, A J F ^c,d   Schaart, Dennis R ^a   Wallinga, Jakob ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PARAMETERS; COASTAL DUNE; COASTAL REGIONS; FLOOD RISKS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; NEW SOURCES; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; STORM SURGES; STORM-SURGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COASTAL ZONES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

FLOODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DUNE; FLOOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM SURGE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EUROPE;

EID: 80054885998     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32244.1     Document Type: Article

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