Analysis of a compounding surge and precipitation event in the Netherlands

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Van Den Hurk, Bart ^a   Van Meijgaard, Erik ^a   De Valk, Paul ^a   Van Heeringen, Klaas Jan ^b   Gooijer, Jan ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c Water Board Noorderzijlvest   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

coastal water management; compounding events; flooding

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; OIL WELL FLOODING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STORMS; WATER LEVELS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; JOINT PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; STATISTICS OF EXTREMES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL WATER; CORRELATION; FLOODING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STORM SURGE; WATER LEVEL;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84925436984     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/035001     Document Type: Article

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