Effects of scale and input data on assessing the future impacts of coastal flooding: An application of DIVA for the Emilia-Romagna coast

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2016, Pages

  Wolff, Claudia ^a   Vafeidis, Athanasios T ^a   Lincke, Daniel ^b   Marasmi, Christian ^c   Hinkel, Jochen ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Global Climate Forum   (Germany)

^c Soil and Coast Protection   (Italy)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coastal flooding; Impact assessment; Scale and resolution; Sea level rise; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008625603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00041     Document Type: Article

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