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|a Global Warming and Coastal Erosion |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a [S.l.] : |b Kluwer Academic Publishers, |c 2004. |
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|a One of the most certain consequences of global warming is an increase of global (eustatic)
sea level. The resulting inundation from rising seas will heavily impact low-lying areas; at least 100
million persons live within one meter of mean sea level and are at increased risk in the coming
decades. The very existence of some island states and deltaic coasts is threatened by sea level rise.
An additional threat affecting some of the most heavily developed and economically valuable real
estate will come from an exacerbation of sandy beach erosion. As the beach is lost, fixed structures
nearby are increasingly exposed to the direct impact of storm waves, and will ultimately be damaged
or destroyed unless expensive protective measures are taken. It has long been speculated that the
underlying rate of long-term sandy beach erosion is two orders of magnitude greater than the rate of
rise of sea level, so that any significant increase of sea level has dire consequences for coastal inhabitants.
We present in this paper an analytical treatment that indicates there is a highly multiplicative
association between long-term sandy beach erosion and sea level rise, and use a large and consistent
data base of shoreline position field data to show that there is reasonable quantitative agreement
with observations of 19th and 20th century sea levels and coastal erosion. This result means that the
already-severe coastal erosion problems witnessed in the 20th century will be exacerbated in the 21st
century under plausible global warming scenarios. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |d 2015. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a Stephen P. Leatherman. |
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