A methodology for predicting future coastal hazards due to sea-level rise on the California Coast

Climatic Change

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 251-276

  Revell, David L ^a   Battalio, Robert ^a   Spear, Brian ^a   Ruggiero, Peter ^b   Vandever, Justin ^a  

^a Philip Williams & Associates Ltd   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TECTONICS; ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; ASTRONOMICAL TIDES; AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; BASE FLOOD ELEVATIONS; CALIFORNIA; COASTAL GEOLOGY; COASTAL HAZARDS; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DATA SETS; EROSION HAZARDS; FLOOD ELEVATIONS; FLOOD MAPS; FRANCISCAN COMPLEX; GEOLOGIC UNITS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LEVEL METHOD; PLANNING TOOLS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA-CLIFF; SHORELINE CHANGE; WAVE RUNUP;

CLIMATE MODELS; FORECASTING; HAZARDS; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS;

EROSION;

ACTIVE MARGIN; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855343385     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0315-2     Document Type: Article

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