Incorporating uncertainty of future sea-level rise estimates into vulnerability assessment: A case study in Kahului, Maui

Climatic Change

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 635-647

  Cooper, Hannah M ^a   Chen, Qi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION DECISIONS; CONSERVATIVE ADAPTATION; DATUM TRANSFORMATION; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; HIGH PROBABILITY; INUNDATION MODELING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

ESTIMATION; FLOODS; METADATA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA LEVEL;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION MAKING; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LAND COVER; LIDAR; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THRESHOLD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888298861     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0987-x     Document Type: Article

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