Coastal flooding by tropical cyclones and sea-level rise

JD Woodruff, JL Irish, SJ Camargo - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The future impacts of climate change on landfalling tropical cyclones are unclear.
Regardless of this uncertainty, flooding by tropical cyclones will increase as a result of …

Climate change-driven coastal erosion modelling in temperate sandy beaches: Methods and uncertainty treatment

A Toimil, P Camus, IJ Losada, G Le Cozannet… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Developing future projections of shoreline change requires a good understanding of the
driving coastal processes. These processes result primarily from the combination of mean …

Is barrier island morphology a function of tidal and wave regime?

JS Mulhern, CL Johnson, JM Martin - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Classification of barrier island morphology stems from the seminal work of MO Hayes and
others, which linked island shape to tidal range and wave height and defined coastal energy …

A global analysis of human settlement in coastal zones

C Small, RJ Nicholls - Journal of coastal research, 2003 - JSTOR
Recent improvements in mapping of global population distribution makes it possible to
estimate the number and distribution of people near coasts with greater accuracy than …

Shoreline definition and detection: a review

EH Boak, IL Turner - Journal of coastal research, 2005 - meridian.allenpress.com
Abstract Analysis of shoreline variability and shoreline erosion-accretion trends is
fundamental to a broad range of investigations undertaken by coastal scientists, coastal …

Global warming and coastal erosion

K Zhang, BC Douglas, SP Leatherman - Climatic change, 2004 - Springer
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 …

The dynamic effects of sea level rise on low‐gradient coastal landscapes: A review

DL Passeri, SC Hagen, SC Medeiros, MV Bilskie… - Earth's …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal responses to sea level rise (SLR) include inundation of wetlands, increased
shoreline erosion, and increased flooding during storm events. Hydrodynamic parameters …

Coastal erosion, global sea‐level rise, and the loss of sand dune plant habitats

RA Feagin, DJ Sherman… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Much of America's coastline is threatened by overdevelopment and coastal erosion, driven
by global sea‐level rise, a problem that is attracting the attention of researchers around the …

Beach response to a sequence of extreme storms

G Coco, N Senechal, A Rejas, KR Bryan, S Capo… - Geomorphology, 2014 - Elsevier
A sequence of daily beach surveys acquired over one month covering an area larger than
100,000 m 2, was analyzed to study morphological changes resulting from a cluster of …

The predictive accuracy of shoreline change rate methods and alongshore beach variation on Maui, Hawaii

AS Genz, CH Fletcher, RA Dunn… - Journal of Coastal …, 2007 - meridian.allenpress.com
Beach erosion has direct consequences for Hawaii's tourist-based economy, which depends
on the attraction of beautiful sandy beaches. Within the last century, however, beaches on …