impacts of rising sea level on the mekong deltarelating to flooding and possible impacts on agriculture, on coastal areas and on some broader aspecTrinh Cong VanEstuary and Coastal EngineeringInternational Journal on Hydropower & DamsVan T. C. (2010) Impacts of rising sea level on the Mekong Delta. The International Journal...
Recovery of the most damaged sites took only ~8y. While future trajectories of these resilient reefs will depend on sea-level anomalies, and frequency of extreme bleaching the positive role of rising sea level should not be under-estimated....
Based on the assumption of global sea level rising between 30 and 100 cm in the future 100 years by IPCC (1990) in addition to the effect of local ground subsidence, the coastline will retrograde for 50-70 km whose altitudes will be 2.6-3.3m above MSL of Huanghai Sea in the western co...
We have developed a new coastal database for the Mediterranean basin that is intended for coastal impact and adaptation assessment to sea-level rise and associated hazards on a regional scale. The data structure of the database relies on a linear representation of the coast with associated spatial...
Other studies have attempted to check whether decadal to multidecadal coastal erosion is more likely when sea level is rising faster. For that purpose, the studies used observations of shoreline evolution in areas where sea level significantly deviated from the global average during the past decades....
Cypress treesare another clue of our rising seas and changing climate. Cypress trees cannot germinate when submerged in water, but they can tolerate submersion once grown. Cypress growing out past the water’s edge are just one of the visual signals of sea level rise. ...
This approach is especially interesting for a coastal vulnerability study given that in territories such as this one, issues like the impact of rising sea levels as a result of climate change have been socially very controversial. In fact, approaches in this territory have traditionally existed that...
Other significant impacts have occurred, highlighting the vulnerability of this region to inundation from extreme sea levels. Predicted rising sea levels will lead to increases in inundation that put the future viability of human habitation on a number of Pacific islands at risk (Mimura et al., ...
115,116 In addition to the vulnerability of deltaic blue carbon, those on ocean islands and atolls may be particularly vulnerable to the combined influences of rising sea levels and increased wave heights. For example, it is proposed that changing wind and wave conditions in conjunction with sea...
water storage/ sea-level changeanthropogenic impactsterrestrial water storageGlobal sea level has been rising over the past half century, according to tide-gauge data. Thermal expansion of oceans, melting of glaciers and loss of the ice masses in Greenland and Antarctica are commonly considered as ...