The Physical Oceanography of the Great Barrier Reef:: A Review

E Wolanski, M Kingsford, J Lambrechts… - … Processes of Coral …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Here, we emphasise a fundamental difference between the shelf waters of the Great Barrier
Reef (GBR) and other parts of the world. The water circulation over the GBR continental …

[HTML][HTML] Coral reefs for coastal protection: A new methodological approach and engineering case study in Grenada

BG Reguero, MW Beck, VN Agostini, P Kramer… - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Coastal communities in tropical environments are at increasing risk from both environmental
degradation and climate change and require urgent local adaptation action. Evidences …

Financing coastal resilience by combining nature-based risk reduction with insurance

BG Reguero, MW Beck, D Schmid, D Stadtmüller… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The increasing impacts of climate hazards combined with the loss of coastal habitats require
urgent solutions to manage risk. Storm losses continue to grow and much of them are …

When are payment for ecosystems services suitable for coral reef derived coastal protection?: A review of scientific requirements

A Brathwaite, N Pascal, E Clua - Ecosystem Services, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) is an emerging tool intended to solve a
range of ecosystem management inefficiencies, by linking conservation action to payment …

Coral mortality induced by the 2015–2016 El-Niño in Indonesia: the effect of rapid sea level fall

EE Ampou, O Johan, CE Menkes, F Niño, F Birol… - …, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
The 2015–2016 El-Niño and related ocean warming has generated significant coral
bleaching and mortality worldwide. In Indonesia, the first signs of bleaching were reported in …

[HTML][HTML] Shoreline protection by the world's coral reefs: Mapping the benefits to people, assets, and infrastructure

L Burke, M Spalding - Marine Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The important role of coral reefs in protecting people, economies and infrastructure is widely
acknowledged. Coral reefs are highly effective at reducing wave energy and thereby …

Global wave hindcast with Australian and Pacific Island Focus: From past to present

GA Smith, M Hemer, D Greenslade… - Geoscience Data …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wind‐wave hindcast data have many applications including climatology assessments for
renewable energy projects, maritime engineering design, event‐based impact assessments …

Natural hazards in Australia: sea level and coastal extremes

KL McInnes, CJ White, ID Haigh, MA Hemer, RK Hoeke… - Climatic change, 2016 - Springer
The Australian coastal zone encompasses tropical, sub-and extra-tropical climates and
accommodates about 80% of Australia's population. Sea level extremes and their physical …

Field measurements show rough fore reefs with spurs and grooves can dissipate more wave energy than the reef crest

S Duce, A Vila-Concejo, RJ McCarroll, B Yiu, LA Perris… - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
Coral reefs are widely recognized as effective dissipaters of wave energy. Spurs and
grooves (SAG) are common features of fore reefs worldwide and are thought to be …

pyBadlands: A framework to simulate sediment transport, landscape dynamics and basin stratigraphic evolution through space and time

T Salles, X Ding, G Brocard - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Understanding Earth surface responses in terms of sediment dynamics to climatic variability
and tectonics forcing is hindered by limited ability of current models to simulate long-term …