Coastal vulnerability to wave storms of Sele littoral plain (southern Italy)

Natural Hazards

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1795-1819

  Di Paola, Gianluigi ^a   Aucelli, Pietro Patrizio Ciro ^b   Benassai, Guido ^b   Rodríguez, Germán ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b Centro Direzionale   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beach retreat; CVA index; Sele River Coastal Plain; Vulnerability index; Wave run up

Indexed keywords

BEACH EROSION; BEACH PROFILE; COASTAL PLAIN; EROSION RATE; INDEX METHOD; STORM DAMAGE; VULNERABILITY; WAVE RUNUP;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY; SALERNO; SELE PLAIN;

EID: 84897636315     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0980-8     Document Type: Article

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