Compounding effects of sea level rise and fluvial flooding

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 37, 2017, Pages 9785-9790

  Moftakhari, Hamed R ^a   Salvadori, Gianfausto ^b   AghaKouchak, Amir ^a,c   Sanders, Brett F ^a,c   Matthew, Richard A ^c  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal flooding; Compound extremes; Copula; Failure probability; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; FLOODING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEA LEVEL RISE; CITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER; HUMAN; SEA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TSUNAMI; UNITED STATES;

CITIES; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTERS; FLOODS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; TIDAL WAVES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85029437794     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620325114     Document Type: Article

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