Joint projections of US East Coast sea level and storm surge

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1114-1120

  Little, Christopher M ^a   Horton, Radley M ^b   Kopp, Robert E ^c   Oppenheimer, Michael ^d,e   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^f   Villarini, Gabriele ^g  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CIRCULATION MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL; STORM SURGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948163996     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2801     Document Type: Article

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