Trend analysis of wave direction and associated impacts on the Catalan coast

Climatic Change

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 667-691

  Casas Prat, M ^a   Sierra, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALANS; CATALONIA; COASTAL MORPHODYNAMICS; DYNAMIC PATTERNS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; NW MEDITERRANEAN; PRESENT SITUATION; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE HINDCAST;

BEACHES; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTRAPOLATION; METADATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PORTS AND HARBORS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; HARBOR; HINDCASTING; MORPHODYNAMICS; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE HEIGHT;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84868690393     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0466-9     Document Type: Article

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