A user-friendly database of coastal flooding in the United Kingdom from 1915-2014

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Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Haigh, Ivan D ^a,b   Wadey, Matthew P ^a   Gallop, Shari L ^a   Loehr, Heiko ^a   Nicholls, Robert J ^a   Horsburgh, Kevin ^c   Brown, Jennifer M ^c   Bradshaw, Elizabeth ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84937529986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2015.21     Document Type: Article

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