Numerical Model Development to Address the Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Hydrology and Ecology in Souther Florida
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Title:
Numerical Model Development to Address the Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Hydrology and Ecology in Souther Florida
Creator:
Eric D. Swain
Conference:
2008 Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Planning Policy and Science Meeting, 2008-07-28 to 2008-08-01
Publisher:
United States Geological Survey
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Language:
English

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Scope and Content:
Sea-level rise is an important climate change issue for coastal regions worldwide, affecting freshwater habitats, urban flooding, and saltwater intrusion in aquifers. The ability to predict how climate change affects ecosystems is complicated by environmental and hydrologic interactions that occur in urban, agricultural, and natural areas; as well as surface-water and ground-water connections, topographic variation, and other factors. All such interactions occur in southern Florida ecosystems, where complex hydrologic models have been developed to predict how restoration efforts will affect the Everglades. Model capabilities have steadily advanced in recent years, ranging from the coupling of dynamic surface-water and ground-water code to incorporating salinity and heat transport. The resulting computational tools are well suited to represent and predict how climate change may affect hydrologic and ecological systems.

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Florida International University
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