Towards a global regionally varying allowance for sea-level rise

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-27

  Hunter, J R ^a   Church, J A ^b   White, N J ^b   Zhang, X ^b  

^a ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate projection; Sea level rise; Storm tide

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; STORMS; TIDES;

CLIMATE PROJECTION; EMISSION SCENARIO; NORTHERN REGIONS; REGIONAL VARIATION; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; STORM SURGES; STORM TIDE;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; OCEAN TIDE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM SURGE;

EID: 84885384158     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2012.12.041     Document Type: Article

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