Development of the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) for predicting the impact of storms on high-energy, active-margin coasts

Natural Hazards

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1095-1125

  Barnard, Patrick L ^a   van Ormondt, Maarten ^b   Erikson, Li H ^a   Eshleman, Jodi ^c   Hapke, Cheryl ^a   Ruggiero, Peter ^d   Adams, Peter N ^e   Foxgrover, Amy C ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach; Cliff; Erosion; Hazards; Inundation; Modeling; Storms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939894228     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1236-y     Document Type: Article

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