Interactions between sea-level rise and wave exposure on reef island dynamics in the Solomon Islands

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Albert, Simon ^a   Leon, Javier X ^a,b   Grinham, Alistair R ^a   Church, John A ^c   Gibbes, Badin R ^a   Woodroffe, Colin D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

coastal erosion; Pacific Islands; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; EROSION; FLOODS; REEFS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ADAPTATION RESPONSE; COASTAL DYNAMICS; COASTAL EROSION; GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SHORELINE CHANGE; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION;

SEA LEVEL;

ADAPTATION; ATOLL; COASTAL EROSION; EXTREME EVENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; WAVE ENERGY;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SOLOMON ISLANDS [SOLOMON ISLANDS (ISG)];

EID: 84975473957     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054011     Document Type: Article

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