Flooding along English Channel coast due to long-period swell waves

Weather

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 59-66

  Sibley, Andrew ^a   Cox, Dave ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; SWELL;

ENGLISH CHANNEL;

EID: 84896883810     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wea.2145     Document Type: Article

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