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|a Floridian Coastline Recession |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the user's responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a Rising sea levels are of significant concern as global temperatures continue
to mount. Predicted increases in sea level place coastal regions and
cities in danger. This danger is far from uniform; many factors contribute
to the relative infiltration of water and its consequent effect on land. Naive
considerations of elevation alone would result in a poor model of what happens
in real life. This is especially true for the state of Florida, whose low
elevation, extensive coastal regions, and variety of shoreline development
make it particularly susceptible to inhomogeneous effects due to climate
change. To evaluate these effects in their full extent and diversity, we
present a model that considers a broad range of factors, taking into account
such parameters as coastal convexity, drainage characteristics, and
vegetal population densities. Furthermore, our model accounts for the
dynamic nature of evolving coastlines by constructing a field of vectors
normal to the coast at any given time, and utilizing this field to direct
the evolution of the coast over the next time step. Coastal recession, as
directed by these vectors, is then scaled by local hazard factors, to obtain
a refined model of coastline change. The results and implications of this
model are evaluated in this paper. |
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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 Florida Documents Collection. |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI15060967/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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|3 Host material |u http://www.math.washington.edu/~morrow/mcm/team2305.pdf |y Floridian Coastline Recession |
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