"Comparing the Role of Absolute Sea Level Rise and Vertical Tectonic Motions in Coastal Flooding, Torres Islands (Vanuatu)." PNAS 108: 13019-13022. doi:10.1073/ pnas.1102842108.Ballu V, Bouin M-N, Sime´oni P (2011) Comparing the role of absolute sea-leve...
Ocean warming and land ice melt in turn are causing sea level to rise. Sea level rise and its impacts on coastal zones have become a question of growing interest in the scientific community, as well as in the media and public. In this review paper, we summarize the most up-to-date ...
Comparing the role of absolute sea-level rise and vertical tectonic motions in coastal flooding, Torres Islands (Vanuatu) Since the late 1990s, rising sea levels around the Torres Islands (north Vanuatu, southwest Pacific) have caused strong local and international concern. In... Valerie Ballu,Mar...
2Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise (SLR) and Adverse Consequences Loss of territory and of maritime zones have recently attracted attention because of the aggravation of SLR, a phenomenon the existence of which is widely supported by scientific evidence. An International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
Faster-than-average sea level rise, ocean warming and acidification are threatening the Pacific Islands, the World Meteorological Organization said, as regional leaders meet to discuss economic and security issues this week. The latest WMO report found that sea surface temperatures in the Pacific had...
The developed SLR scenarios can be used to assess the potential coastal flood risk in the study area for sustainable and effective coastal management and planning. Keywords: extreme sea level; local scale analysis; Port-Bouët Bay; sea-level rise; climate change; storm tide; wave run-up 1....
Vanuatu is vulnerable to natural disasters such as cyclone, earthquake, sea level rise, tidal wave and volcanic eruption 瓦努阿图容易遭受各种自然灾害,例如台风、地震、涨潮、海浪、火山爆发。 MultiUn In addition, these winds produced rough sea conditions, and high waves posed few threats along coas...
Reef response to sea-level rise: keep-up, catch-up or give-up. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress, Tahiti, pp. 105–110. Google Scholar Nunn, P. D., 1993. Role of Porolithon algal-ridge growth in the development of the windward coast of Tongatapu Island,...
根据第一段中的 "Climate change is causing the sea to rise. That's bad news for the Pacific Islands. 气候变化导致海洋上升。对于太平洋岛屿来说,这是个坏消息。" 可知, 由于气候变化,海平面上升对太平洋岛屿有什么坏消息。故选B。 2. 本题考查语境理解及词义猜测。选项翻译:A. 危险; 风险;B. 步骤;...
Epic, round-the-world chases by Sea Shepherd, a vigilante conservation group, to interdict rogue vessels fishing for the valuable Patagonian toothfish in the Southern Ocean have captured the imagination of ecowarriors. 中国的“黑暗船队”是世界上最大的,却不是唯一的。GFW和帮助非洲国家获取渔业...