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The Niger Delta’s vulnerability to river floods due to sea level rise
... Pendelton et al. (2010) and Dwarakish et al. (2009) used six variables to assess the coastal vulnerability to sea level rise and coastal change for the northern Gulf of Mexico in Mexico and the Udupi ...
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Complementing thermosteric sea level rise estimates
... “barystatic” sea level changes by Gregory et ...the sea surface and redistributed in the ocean’s interior have a negligible effect on seawater density and thus sea level changes on the ...
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Synthesizing long-term sea level rise projections – the MAGICC sea level model v2.0
... Abstract. Sea level rise (SLR) is one of the major impacts of global warming; it will threaten coastal populations, infras- tructure, and ecosystems around the globe in coming cen- ...
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Impacts of sea level rise on morphodynamics in Liverpool Bay
... of sea level rise (SLR) on the tide, waves and sediment transport on a regional scale, and more importantly the implication of such changes on coastal engineering practice, three estuaries in ...
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On analysing sea level rise in the German Bight since 1844
... observed sea level rise (SLR) in the German Bight, the shallow south- eastern part of the North Sea, is ...mean sea level (MSL) time ...non-stationary sea level ...
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Assessing the Impacts of Sea Level Rise Using Existing Data
... commercial area, the lack of data collection points would create an unrealistic (lower risk) view of the groundwater levels in these areas. They are higher than initially esti- mated. Figure 2(c) is the results for the ...
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The impact of sea-level rise on tidal characteristics around Australia
... in sea level over the last century suggest a rise of between ...global sea-level rise (SLR) has been estimated at ...global sea level may rise by up to 1 m ...
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Estimating sea-level allowances for Atlantic Canada under conditions of uncertain sea-level rise
... future sea-level rise (SLR), vertical land motion, extreme water levels (combined tide and surge), harbour seiche and wave run-up (Forbes et ...of sea-level rise (Hunter 2012, ...
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Study on Impact of Sea Level Rise and Extreme Sea State on Coastal Inundation in Tamil Nadu
... accelerated Sea- Level Rise (SLR) mainly due to oceanic thermal expansion and melting of glaciers, Greenland and Antarctic ice ...accelerated rise of 9- 88 cm will occur between 1990 and 2100 ...
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Estimation of Impact of Sea Level Rise on Land and Water Resources When Data Is Sparse Case of Colombo
... the sea level ...the sea level rise in the coastal area of ...on sea level rise and possible issues in the case study area as well as the potential to identify such ...
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Regional issues raised by sea level rise and their policy implications
... Moreover, important resources to human society could also be affected. In Senegal, most tourist facilities could be destroyed and up to 180 000 people could lose their homes. In Benin, the coastal zone is densely pop- ...
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Reconstructing the glacier contribution to sea-level rise back to 1850
... The result of the study by Dyurgerov and Meier (2005) is shown in Fig. 1. The total contribution by glaciers to sea- level rise amounts to about 1.6 cm over a 40-yr period. Com- pared to the ...
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Rapid sea-level rise along the Antarctic margins in response to increased glacial discharge
... of sea level rise in the Antarctic subpolar seas is calculated by subtracting the rate of global-mean total sea level rise, ...total sea level rise is ...
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An examination of land use impacts of flooding induced by sea level rise
... Abstract. Coastal regions become unprecedentedly vulnera- ble to coastal hazards that are associated with sea level rise. The purpose of this paper is therefore to simulate prospective urban exposure ...
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Quantifying the impact of basin dynamics on the regional sea level rise in the Black Sea
... Displayed in Fig. 7b–d are the linear trends of (b) fre- quency, (c) orbital velocity, and (d) radius of the Black Sea eddies, estimated using the “winding angle” method. Al- though the estimated trends are rather ...
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Accelerated sea level rise and Florida Current transport
... gauges in the Chesapeake Bay and middle Atlantic coast con- cluding that the Gulf Stream has shifted from a 6–8 year os- cillation cycle to a continuous weakening trend since about 2004, and that this trend may be ...
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The Law of the Sea Convention and Sea Level Rise after the South China Sea Arbitration
... a sea level rise caused by an- thropogenic climate ...by sea level rise could make a case that the territory was pre- viously inhabited, and thus retains the character of land by ...
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Coastal modelling of sea level rise for the Christchurch coastal environment
... recent sea level rise predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2013) to determine whether the statutory requirements outlined in the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement 2010 are ...
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Redating the earliest evidence of the mid-Holocene relative sea-level highstand in Australia and implications for global sea-level rise
... mean sea level (PMSL) [24]. This rise in sea level has been nonlinear since the LGM [25–29], but with an average rate of ...century sea-level rise [30, ...relative ...
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Quantifying the effect of sea level rise and flood defence – a point process perspective on coastal flood damage
... Both approaches are based on extreme value theory but differ in the extreme sea levels that are taken into account. Since the point process approach presented in this work is able to consider all relevant flood ...
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