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van Sandick, Floortje (author)
Louisiana, USA, operates as an oilscape, sacrificing its landscape in pursuit of economic prosperity through the oil and gas industry. Combined with sea level rise, this has resulted in continuous land loss since the fifties, making the Louisiana coast one of the fastest declining in the world. As a consequence, many communities are living on...
master thesis 2018
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Hope, M.E. (author), Westerink, J.J. (author), Kennedy, A.B. (author), Kerr, P.C. (author), Dietrich, J.C. (author), Dawson, C. (author), Bender, C.J. (author), Smith, J.M. (author), Jensen, R.E. (author), Zijlema, M. (author), Holthuijsen, L.H. (author), Luettich, R.A. (author), Powell, M.D. (author), Cardone, V.J. (author), Cox, A.T. (author), Pourtaheri, H. (author), Roberts, H.J. (author), Atkinson, J.H. (author), Tanaka, S. (author), Westerink, H.J. (author), Westerink, L.G. (author)
Hurricane Ike (2008) made landfall near Galveston, Texas, as a moderate intensity storm. Its large wind field in conjunction with the Louisiana-Texas coastline's broad shelf and large scale concave geometry generated waves and surge that impacted over 1000 km of coastline. Ike's complex and varied wave and surge response physics included: the...
journal article 2013