Predicting the response of hard and soft rock coasts to changes in sea level and wave height

Climatic Change

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 599-615

  Trenhaile, Alan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FASTER RATES; HARD ROCKS; PREDICTIVE EQUATIONS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SOFT ROCKS; STORM WAVES; SUBTIDAL ZONE; TIDAL ENVIRONMENTS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE IMPACTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EROSION; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; WATER WAVES;

SHEAR FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROCK; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHEAR STRESS; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; WAVE HEIGHT;

EID: 81555216817     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0035-7     Document Type: Article

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