Vulnerability of Catalan (NW Mediterranean) ports to wave overtopping due to different scenarios of sea level rise

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1457-1468

  Sierra, Joan Pau ^a,b   Casanovas, Ignacio ^a   Mösso, César ^a,b   Mestres, Marc ^a,b   Sánchez Arcilla, Agustín ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b International Centre of Coastal Resources Research   (Spain)

Author keywords

Harbour; Overtopping; Port; Sea level rise; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944916470     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0879-x     Document Type: Article

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