Changing extreme sea levels along European coasts

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 4-14

  Weisse, Ralf ^a   Bellafiore, Debora ^b   Menéndez, Melisa ^c   Méndez, Fernando ^c   Nicholls, Robert J ^d   Umgiesser, Georg ^b,f   Willems, Patrick ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^c ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Climate change; European coasts; Extreme sea levels; Mean sea level; Storm surges; Wind waves

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STORMS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM TREND; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; MEAN SEA LEVEL; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; STATISTICAL TOOLS; STORM SURGES; WIND WAVE;

SEA LEVEL;

COASTAL ZONE; EUROPEAN UNION; EXTREME EVENT; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; SEA LEVEL; STORM SURGE; WIND WAVE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84896544419     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2013.10.017     Document Type: Article

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