Changes to extreme wave climates of islands within the Western Tropical Pacific throughout the 21st century under RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5, with implications for island vulnerability and sustainability

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 141, Issue , 2016, Pages 25-38

  Shope, James B ^a   Storlazzi, Curt D ^b   Erikson, Li H ^b   Hegermiller, Christie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pacific Islands; Tropical Pacific

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; FLOODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; TROPICS; WATER WAVES; WIND;

COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; EXTRATROPICAL STORMS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PACIFIC ISLANDS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; TROPICAL PACIFIC; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GLOBAL CHANGE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOFTWARE; SUSTAINABILITY; SWELL; VULNERABILITY; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84964320719     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.03.009     Document Type: Article

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