Extreme sea levels on the rise along Europe's coasts

Earth's Future

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 304-323

  Vousdoukas, Michalis I ^a,b   Mentaschi, Lorenzo ^a   Voukouvalas, Evangelos ^a   Verlaan, Martin ^c   Feyen, Luc ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

climate change; coastal hazard; sea level rise; storm surge; waves

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; EPISODIC EVENT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEAN WAVE; RISK FACTOR; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM SURGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF CADIZ; IRELAND; NORTH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85014963130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000505     Document Type: Article

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