Hurricane storm surge and wave modeling in Southern Louisiana: A brief overview

Proceedings of the International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 467-506

  Atkinson, J ^a   Westerink, J ^b   Wamsley, T ^c   Cialone, M ^c   Dietrich, C ^b   Dresback, K ^d   Kolar, R ^d   Resio, D ^c   Bender, C ^e   Blanton, B ^c   Bunya, S ^f   De Jong, W ^c   Ebersole, B ^c   Grzegorzewski, A ^c   Jensen, B ^c   Pourtaheri, H ^c   Ratcliff, J ^c   Roberts, H ^c   Smith, J ^c   Szpilka, C ^d  

^a Ayres   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c ERDC USCAE ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e Taylor Engineering   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODELING; COMPUTER MODELS; COUPLED MODEL SYSTEMS; FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; HURRICANE STORM SURGE; MODELING PROJECT; PHYSICAL FEATURES; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOODS; HURRICANES; STORMS;

MODELS;

EID: 84891313008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40990(324)28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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