Impacts on the Land Maintenance Mechanisms of Atolls Induced by the Climate Change and the Aea Level-rise―Field Survey on Majuro Atoll, the Marshall Islands―
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: According to IPCC Third Assessment Report, the mean sea level is projected to rise to 9 to 88 cm by 2100 relative to in 1990 due to the global warming and climate changes (IPCC, 2001). Various impacts are anticipated to be caused by the sea-level rise in coastal areas. As for the inundation risks for example, the potentially inundated area are expected to increase by 1.5 times relative to the present against 50cm sea-level rise according to the calculations using the global topographical data. Storm surges enhance the risk. In particular, the countries which consist of atolls like Marshall Islands and Tuvalu in the South Pacific region are exposed to the risk of inundation. This paper focuses on the impacts of global warming and sea-level rise onto the coastal areas of atolls, and presents the preliminary results of the field survey in Majuro atoll supported by Global Environment Research Fund (GERF), Ministry of the Environment, Japan.
Source: Kagoshima University Repository
Authors: 横木, 裕宗, 106956, YOKOKI, Hiromune
Language: English
Topic: Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Subfield: Earth-Surface Processes
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7038333432