Assessment of vulnerability of the eastern Cretan beaches (Greece) to sea level rise

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1951-1962

  Monioudi, Isavela N ^a   Karditsa, Aikaterini ^b   Chatzipavlis, Antonios ^a   Alexandrakis, George ^d   Andreadis, Olympos P ^a   Velegrakis, Adonis F ^a   Poulos, Serafim E ^b   Ghionis, George ^d   Petrakis, Stylianos ^b   Sifnioti, Dafni ^b   Hasiotis, Thomas ^a   Lipakis, Michalis ^e   Kampanis, Nikolaos ^d   Karambas, Theophanis ^c   Marinos, Emmanouel ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^e Eastern Crete Development Organization   (Greece)

Author keywords

Beach retreat; East Crete; Ensemble modeling; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914127413     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0730-9     Document Type: Article

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