Impact assessment of sea-level rise and hazardous storms on coasts and estuaries using integrated processes model

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 74-95

  Ding, Yan ^a   Kuiry, Soumendra Nath ^a,c   Elgohry, Moustafa ^a   Jia, Yafei ^a   Altinakar, Mustafa S ^a   Yeh, Keh Chia ^b  

^a The University of Mississippi   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Coastal flooding; Integrated process modeling; Morphological change; Sea level rise; Storms

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HAZARDS; HURRICANES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STORMS;

COASTAL FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; INTEGRATED PROCESS MODEL; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; MORPHODYNAMIC PROCESS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; SEA LEVEL RISE; WATER SURFACE ELEVATIONS;

SEA LEVEL;

COASTAL ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLOODING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MODELING; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84885380962     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2013.01.015     Document Type: Article

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