Changing North Sea storm surge climate: An increasing hazard?

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 68, Issue , 2012, Pages 58-68

  Weisse, Ralf ^a   von Storch, Hans ^a   Niemeyer, Hanz Dieter ^b   Knaack, Heiko ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Nature Conservation Centre Unterelbe   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ASTRONOMICAL TIDES; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL PROTECTION; HIGH WIND SPEED; LONG-TERM CHANGES; LONG-TERM TREND; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; MEAN SEA LEVEL; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NORTH SEA; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACES; SHALLOW WATERS; SOUTHERN NORTH SEA; STORM SURGES; TIME-SCALES; WAVE CLIMATES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; FLOODS; HAZARDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; SHORE PROTECTION; WIND EFFECTS;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; EXTREME EVENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; LOW PRESSURE; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE; STORM SURGE; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84872613123     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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