How changing sea level extremes and protection measures alter coastal flood damages

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1199-1210

  Boettle, M ^a   Rybski, D ^a   Kropp, J P ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

coastal flood damage; extreme events; flood protection; flood risk; sea level rise; storm surges

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA LEVEL; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COASTAL FLOODS; EXTREME EVENTS; FLOOD PROTECTION; FLOOD RISKS; SEA LEVEL RISE; STORM SURGES;

SHORE PROTECTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL PROTECTION; FLOOD; FLOOD DAMAGE; PROBABILITY; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 84876721176     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20108     Document Type: Article

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