Wave attenuation over coastal salt marshes under storm surge conditions

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 727-731

  Möller, Iris ^a,b   Kudella, Matthias ^c   Rupprecht, Franziska ^d   Spencer, Tom ^a   Paul, Maike ^c   Van Wesenbeeck, Bregje K ^e   Wolters, Guido ^e   Jensen, Kai ^d   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^f   Miranda Lange, Martin ^c   Schimmels, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Forschungszentrum Küste ^*  (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PROTECTION; COASTAL ZONE; DISSIPATION; FLOODING; FLUME EXPERIMENT; SALTMARSH; STORM SURGE; VEGETATION; WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 84927930022     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2251     Document Type: Article

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