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| Impacts and Adaptation > Coastal
Zone Impacts |
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| Regional Impacts |
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| General
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| Coastal
Zone Impacts |
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U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency |
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http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ImpactsCoastalZones.html |
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This
website, part of the EPA global warming impacts
site, focuses on coastal changes due to global
warming. The site provides an overview of the
main issues
of flooding, coastal surge, storm frequency and
their impacts on coastal wetlands, coastal roads,
ports and other infrastructure. Further, it contains
links to a variety of other useful sites and information
resources. |
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| Sea
Level Rise Reports |
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U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency |
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http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsSeaLevelRiseIndex.html |
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A
guided portal to information (maps, published
articles,
government reports) concerning sea level rise impacts
on and projections for the United States. |
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| Greenhouse
Effect and Sea Level Rise: A Challenge for this
Generation |
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Van
Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc., New York, NY.
325pp.
1984 Authors: M.C. Barth and J.G. Titus [Eds.] |
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http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsSLRChallenge.html |
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This book covers issues related to sea level rise
including the causes and effects of sea level
rise,
estimates, physical impacts and geomorphic responses,
erosion, inundation and salinity intrusion,
economic
analyses, planning for coastal disasters, and implications
for hazardous waste sites located in coastal
floodplains.
Although Van Nostrand Reinhold Company originally
published the book, it is entirely written by
EPA
employee's and contractors, and is available in
its entirety from the EPA Global Warming web
site.
(4.9 MB PDF) |
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| Global
sea level change: Determination and interpretation
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Review
of Geophysics Vol. 33, Suppl., Americal Geophysical
Union 1995 Authors: B.C. Douglas |
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http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/dougla01/dougla01.html |
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This report was prepared by the American Geophysical
Union on behalf of the U.S. National Committee
for
IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics),
1991-1994. The full report was published as
a supplement
to Reviews of Geophysics, Vol. 33, 1995. |
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| Greenhouse
Effect and Sea Level Rise: The Cost of Holding
Back
the Sea |
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Coastal
Management, Vol. 19, Iss. 2, pp.171-204, 1991
Authors:
J.G. Titus, R.A. Park, S.P. Leatherman, J.R. Weggel,
M.S. Greene, P.W. Mausel, S. Brown, C. Gaunt,
M.
Trehan, and G. Yohe |
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http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/UniqueKeyLookup/SHSU5BPPAL/$File/cost_of_holding.pdf |
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This
article examines the cost of protecting coastal
communities from rising sea levels associated with
climate change. It outlines specific strategies
and assesses their effectiveness, benefits and
costs. In addition, the analysis includes information
about
costs of sea level rise if no action is taken,
drawing on mapping and climate prediction studies. |
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| The
Probability of Sea Level Rise |
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U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.,
186 pp., Oct. 1995 Authors: J.G. Titus and V. Narayanan
[Eds.] |
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http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsProbability.html |
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The
report develops probability-based projections
that
can be added to local tide-gage trends to estimate
future sea level at particular locations. It uses
the same models employed by previous assessments
of sea level rise. The key coefficients in those
models are based on subjective probability distributions
supplied by a cross-section of climatologists,
oceanographers,
and glaciologists. |
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| Regional
Impacts |
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| A
Coastal Hazards Data Base for the U.S. East
Coast
(1992) |
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Carbon
Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) Authors:
V.M. Gornitz and T.W. White |
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http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ndps/ndp043a.html |
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The
29 data variables within A Coastal Hazards Data
Base for the U.S. East Coast are designed for use
by coastal planning, research, and management
agencies
in combination with appropriate climatological
data. The database may be used to identify coastal
zones
that are vulnerable to coastal erosion and inundation
from sea level rise or storm surge. The database
presents data on coastal geology, geomorphology,
elevation, erosion, wave heights, tide ranges,
and
sea levels for the U.S. east coast. These data
may be used either by non-geographic database
management
systems or by raster or vector geographic information
systems (GISs). |
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| Hot
Nights in the City: Global Warming, Sea-Level
Rise
and the New York Metropolitan Region |
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Environmental
Defense Fund, 36pp., 1999 Authors: J. Bloomfield,
M. Smith, and N. Thompson [Staff Scientist] |
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http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/493_HotNY.pdf |
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This report is one of EDF's regional impacts studies,
focusing on implications of climate change for
the
New York metropolitan area: sea-level rise and
flooding, extreme heat and air quality. The
report draws attention
to human health and coastal impacts on homes, businesses
and infrastructure based on several warming
scenarios
for the City. (pdf) |
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| Maps
of Lands Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise on the
Northeast
Coast |
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U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency |
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http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsSLRMaps.html |
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This site provides links to regional maps and GIS
data that highlight coastal areas vulnerable
to
inundation and flooding due to sea level rise.
There are several maps of the Atlantic coast,
including
one for the New Jersey shore and another for Long
Island. The maps use three elevation range categories.
These maps were produced in conjunction with the
report, "Maps of Lands Vulnerable to Sea
Level Rise: Modeled Elevations along the U.S.
Atlantic
and Gulf Coasts", originally published in
Climate Research (2001). |
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| Report
of the Coastal Areas and Marine Resources Sector
Team |
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U.S.
National Assessment of the Potential Consequences
of Climate Variability and Change, U.S. Global
Change Research Program. NOAA coastal Ocean Program
Decision
Analysis Series No. #21. NOAA Coastal Ocean Program,
Silver Spring, MD. 163 pp., 2000. Authors: D.F.
Boesch, J.C. Field, and D. Scavia [Eds.] |
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http://www.cop.noaa.gov/pubs/das/das21.pdf |
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This
report is from the Coastal Areas and marine Resources
Sector Team of the U.S. Global Change Research
Program's, National Assessment of the Potential
Consequences
of Climate Variability and Change. |
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| Sea-Level
Rise and Global Climate Change: A Review of
Imapacts
to U.S. Coasts |
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Prepared
for the Pew Center of Global Climate Change, 38pp.
February 2000 Authors: J.E. Neumann, G. Yohe, R.
Nicholls, and M. Manion |
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http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/env_sealevel.pdf
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This
report summarizes the key issues associated with
sea-level rise and coastal resources. It discusses
cost estimates for coastal property and infrastructure
that may be inundated or require protection from
rising seas and loss of coastal wetlands and other
ecosystems, not measured by traditional cost estimates.
Decision-makers will also find an assessment of
policy responses to plan for the present and future
management of coastal resources and infrastructure
that weighs costs and benefits of various policy
and planning responses. [PDF document] |
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