Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge Risk

Current Climate Change Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 74-84

  Resio, Donald T ^a   Irish, Jennifer L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal hazards; Forecasting; Sea level rise; Storm surges; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942105912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40641-015-0011-9     Document Type: Review

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