Future Reef Growth Can Mitigate Physical Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Atoll Islands

Earth's Future

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1002-1014

  Beetham, Edward ^a   Kench, Paul S ^a   Popinet, Stéphane ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Atoll; Infragravity wave; Reef island; Sea level rise; Wave overtopping; Wave transformation

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ATOLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GRAVITY WAVE; REEF FORMATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VULNERABILITY; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE PROPERTY;

FUNAFUTI; TUVALU;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 85033675639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017EF000589     Document Type: Article

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