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Esteban, M. (author), Mikami, T. (author), Shibayama, T. (author), Takagi, H. (author), Jonkman, S.N. (author), Van Ledden, M. (author)
Increases in typhoon intensity and sea level rise could pose significant challenges to coastal defences around Tokyo Bay. In order to analyse the extent of future problems the authors determined the increase storm surge that could result from an increase in typhoon intensity and sea level rise to this area around the turn of the 21st century....
conference paper 2014
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Esteban, M. (author), Tsimopoulou, V. (author), Shibayama, T. (author), Mikami, T. (author), Ohira, K. (author)
Since 2004 there is a growing global awareness of the risks that tsunamis pose to coastal communities. Despite the fact that these events were already an intrinsic part of the culture of some countries (such as Chile and Japan), in many other places they had been virtually unheard of before 2004. Nevertheless, the frequent reoccurrence of these...
journal article 2012