Quantifying the potential impact of land cover changes due to sea-level rise on storm surge on lower Texas coast bays

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 94, Issue , 2014, Pages 102-111

  Ferreira, Celso M ^a   Irish, Jennifer L ^b   Olivera, Francisco ^c  

^a Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

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

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal bays; Hurricane storm surge; Land cover change; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; FRICTION; HURRICANES; STORMS;

ASTRONOMICAL TIDES; COASTAL BAYS; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; HURRICANE STORM SURGE; LAND-COVER CHANGE; POTENTIAL CHANGE; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SEA LEVEL RISE;

SEA LEVEL;

BAY; COASTAL ZONE; HURRICANE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM SURGE; WAVE MODELING;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955478823     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2014.08.011     Document Type: Article

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