On the Pacific coast, we find a considerable divergence in the impacts of relative SLR compared with the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts. By 2050, the cumulative exposed area from ten cities on the US Pacific coast is 20–40 km2, with a population exposure of 6,000–30,000 people and 3,...
The factory of Russell & Co. was founded by Samuel Russell, an American merchant, on Shamian (or Shameen) Island of Guangzhou (Canton) in 1824 and dealt mostly in silk, tea and opium. Thomson's photograph captures the buildings of Russell & Co. in the "American Concession Grounds". 越秀...
Barrier island development along the Alaskan-Yukon coastal plains The Arctic coast of the Alaska and Yukon Coastal Plains extends f枚r 1,520 km, from Cape Beaufort in northwest Alaska to the McKenzie Delta (Fig. 1). Barri... AD Short - 《Geological Society of America Bulletin》 被引量: ...
The urban heat island (UHI) is exacerbated during heat waves, which have been reported to be more frequent in recent years. Unwanted consequences of the UHI not only include an increase in mean/peak energy demand, but an escalation in the heat-related mortality and disease. Although UHI mitig...
3b). These results indicate that on the way to equitable and sustainable urban development29, many large cities in the upper-middle income countries initially made substantial progress, but there is still a long way to go for the large cities in lower-middle-income and low-income countries. ...
Measurements of low-frequency oscillations in coastal and island sea levels have a long ... A Joseph - Elsevier Inc. 被引量: 0发表: 2011年 Geological Notes on some of the Coasts and Islands of Bering Sea and Vicinity Introduction. The notes here presented are those made during an extended...
Australia is the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Its capital city is Canberra, and its most important economic and cultural centers are Sydney and Melbo
Queensland is a state in northeastern Australia, which is the wettest and most tropical part of the continent. The second largest of Australia’s states, Queensland occupies nearly one-fourth of the continent. The capital is Brisbane, on the state’s sou
For the root (diffusion) model (Model 1), its influence is more fundamental: the ‘urban wave’ spreads from the coast to further inland, and, after a sufficiently long time, the state of the urban system at any distance from the coast reproduces the condition on the coast. For the ...
Friedrich Wilhelm II’s eighteenth-century castle on Pfaueninsel – an island reachable by ferry whose name refers to its free-roaming peacock population – will also reopen this summer. The big numbers: The people have spoken: Berlin is still one of Europe’s great going-out cities. Seventy-...