Impacts on wave-driven harbour agitation due to climate change in Catalan ports

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1695-1709

  Sierra, J P ^a,b   Casas Prat, M ^a,b,c   Virgili, M ^a   Mosso C ^a,b   Sanchez Arcilla A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b International Centre of Coastal Resources Research   (Spain)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HARBOR; MARINA; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; PORT; WIND WAVE;

CATALONIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST); SPAIN;

EID: 84938578028     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-15-1695-2015     Document Type: Article

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