Assessment of the sensitivity of the southern coast of the Gulf of Corinth (Peloponnese, Greece) to sea-level rise

Central European Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Karymbalis, Efthimios ^a   Chalkias, Christos ^a   Chalkias, George ^a   Grigoropoulou, Eleni ^a   Manthos, George ^a   Ferentinou, Maria ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coastal geomorphology; GIS; Greece; Sea level rise; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE; GEOLOGICAL FORMATION; GREECE; PHYSICAL VARIABLES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY INDICES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA LEVEL; SHORE PROTECTION; TIDES;

LANDFORMS;

COAST; COASTAL ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE; TIDAL RANGE; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE HEIGHT;

GREECE; GULF OF CORINTH; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PELOPONNESE;

EID: 84883865164     PISSN: 20819900     EISSN: 18961517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s13533-012-0101-3     Document Type: Article

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