Natural hazards in Australia: sea level and coastal extremes

Climatic Change

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 69-83

  McInnes, Kathleen L ^a   White, Christopher J ^b   Haigh, Ivan D ^c   Hemer, Mark A ^a   Hoeke, Ron K ^a   Holbrook, Neil J ^b   Kiem, Anthony S ^d   Oliver, Eric C J ^b   Ranasinghe, Roshanka ^e   Walsh, Kevin J E ^f   Westra, Seth ^g   Cox, Ron ^h  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES;

CHANGING CLIMATE; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; NATURAL HAZARD; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; EXTREME EVENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NATURAL HAZARD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84961659479     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1647-8     Document Type: Review

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