Impacts of coastal inundation due to climate change in a CLUSTER of urban coastal communities in Ghana, West Africa

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2029-2050

  Addo, Kwasi Appeaning ^a   Larbi, Lloyd ^a   Amisigo, Barnabas ^b   Ofori Danson, Patrick Kwabena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b CSIR WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Coastal erosion; Ghana; Inundation; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COASTAL EROSION; GHANA; INUNDATION; SEA LEVEL RISE;

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL WARMING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PHOTOGRAPHY;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 80755125252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3092029     Document Type: Article

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