Importance of wave age and resonance in storm surges: The case Xynthia, Bay of Biscay

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 16-30

  Bertin, Xavier ^a   Bruneau, Nicolas ^b   Breilh, Jean François ^a   Fortunato, André B ^b   Karpytchev, Mikhail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Friction velocity; Numerical model; Resonance; Storm surge; Wave age; Xynthia

Indexed keywords

FRICTION VELOCITY; NUMERICAL MODELS; STORM SURGE; WAVE AGE; XYNTHIA;

EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; RESONANCE; STORMS; WATER LEVELS;

FLOODS;

EKMAN TRANSPORT; HINDCASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN TIDE; OCEAN WAVE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERTURBATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STORM SURGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

EID: 83455211222     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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