The effect of climate change on extreme waves in front of the Dutch coast

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1139-1152

  De Winter, Renske C ^a   Sterl, Andreas ^b   De Vries, Johannes W ^b   Weber, Susanne L ^a,b   Ruessink, Gerben ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extremes; North Sea; Waves

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; COASTAL DEFENCE; DUNE EROSION; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; EXTREME WAVES; EXTREME WEATHER; EXTREME WIND SPEED; EXTREMES; MEAN WATER LEVELS; NORTH SEA; RETURN PERIODS; STORM SURGES; STUDY AREAS; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE PERIOD;

EROSION; OCEAN CURRENTS; RAIN; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; DUNE; EXTREME EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC FRONT; STORM SURGE; VULNERABILITY; WATER LEVEL; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NETHERLANDS; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84865694971     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-012-0551-7     Document Type: Article

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