New York City Panel on Climate Change 2015 Report. Chapter 4: Dynamic coastal flood modeling.
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Philip Orton,1,a Sergey Vinogradov,2,a Nickitas Georgas,1,a Alan Blumberg,1,a Ning Lin,3 Vivien Gornitz,4 Christopher Little,5 Klaus Jacob,6 and Radley Horton4 1Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. 2Earth Resources Technology/National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, Silver Spring, MD. 3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 4Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY. 5Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA. 6Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
دوره 1336 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015