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Adapting to shifting tides: science and the policy implications of coastal change

Adapting to shifting tides: science and the policy implications of coastal change
Adapting to shifting tides: science and the policy implications of coastal change
Acceleration of sea-level rise (SLR) in response to global climate change is well under way. Global SLR averages about 3 millimeters per year over the past several decades, in comparison to an average rate of a fraction of a millimeter per year over the past few thousand years. The increased rate of SLR is exacerbated on a regional scale by decadal scale oscillations in sea level that are due to oceanographic processes, varying wave climate (wave height, period, and direction), coastal subsidence due to subsurface fluid extraction, and anthropogenic alterations in sediment supply to the shoreline, in particular the alteration of sediment delivery and distribution within deltas.
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Anderson, J.
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Griggs, G.
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Nicholls, R.J.
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Uhlenbrock, K.
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Anderson, J.
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Griggs, G.
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Nicholls, R.J.
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Anderson, J., Griggs, G., Nicholls, R.J. and Uhlenbrock, K. (2013) Adapting to shifting tides: science and the policy implications of coastal change. Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union, 94 (47), 435. (doi:10.1002/2013EO470004).

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Acceleration of sea-level rise (SLR) in response to global climate change is well under way. Global SLR averages about 3 millimeters per year over the past several decades, in comparison to an average rate of a fraction of a millimeter per year over the past few thousand years. The increased rate of SLR is exacerbated on a regional scale by decadal scale oscillations in sea level that are due to oceanographic processes, varying wave climate (wave height, period, and direction), coastal subsidence due to subsurface fluid extraction, and anthropogenic alterations in sediment supply to the shoreline, in particular the alteration of sediment delivery and distribution within deltas.

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Published date: 19 November 2013
Organisations: Energy & Climate Change Group

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Local EPrints ID: 360009
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/360009
ISSN: 0096-3941
PURE UUID: 57ee79ba-3243-4d5d-bc05-fb962bd711ee
ORCID for R.J. Nicholls: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9715-1109

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Date deposited: 21 Nov 2013 13:04
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:18

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Author: J. Anderson
Author: G. Griggs
Author: R.J. Nicholls ORCID iD
Author: K. Uhlenbrock

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