A comparison of two global datasets of extreme sea levels and resulting flood exposure

Earth's Future

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 379-392

  Muis, Sanne ^a   Verlaan, Martin ^b,c   Nicholls, Robert J ^d,e   Brown, Sally ^d,e   Hinkel, Jochen ^f,g   Lincke, Daniel ^f   Vafeidis, Athanasios T ^h   Scussolini, Paolo ^a   Winsemius, Hessel C ^b   Ward, Philip J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e TYNDALL CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f Department of Adaptation and Social Learning ^*  (Germany)

^g HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

coastal floods; extreme sea levels; flood risk; hydrodynamic modeling; natural hazards; storm surge

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; DATUM; ELEVATION; FLOODING; HYDRODYNAMICS; NATURAL HAZARD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STORM SURGE;

EID: 85017222650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000430     Document Type: Article

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