Coastal vulnerability due to extreme waves at Kalpakkam based on historical tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1460-1471

  Nayak, Sashikant ^a   Bhaskaran, Prasad K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Coastal vulnerability index; Extreme waves; Synthetic track; Tamil Nadu

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

COASTAL VULNERABILITY INDICES; EXTREME WAVES; HISTORICAL RECORDS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; REGION OF INTEREST; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SYNTHETIC TRACK; TAMIL NADU;

STORMS;

COASTAL ZONE; CYCLONE; ESTIMATION METHOD; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE EVENT; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

CHENNAI; INDIA; KALPAKKAM; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84897912889     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3776     Document Type: Article

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