Changes in North Sea storm surge conditions for four transient future climate realizations

Natural Hazards

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1501-1518

  Gaslikova, Lidia ^a   Grabemann, Iris ^a   Groll, Nikolaus ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme events; North Sea; Storm surge heights

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDRODYNAMICS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM SURGE; WATER LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84876910784     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0279-1     Document Type: Article

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