Toward reliable storm-hazard forecasts: XBeach calibration and its potential application in an operational early-warning system

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1001-1015

  Vousdoukas, Michalis I ^a,b   Ferreira, Óscar ^b   Almeida, Luís P ^b   Pacheco, André ^b  

^a Forschungszentrum Küste ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Beach erosion; Beach profile evolution; Coastal storms; Early warning system; Numerical modeling; Sediment transport; XBeach

Indexed keywords

BEACH EROSION; BEACH PROFILE EVOLUTION; COASTAL STORM; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; XBEACH;

BEACHES; CALIBRATION; EROSION; FORECASTING; HAZARDS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

STORMS;

BEACH EROSION; CALIBRATION; COASTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING METHOD; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STORM SURGE;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84865697874     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-012-0544-6     Document Type: Article

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