Sea level rise and its coastal impacts

A Cazenave, GL Cozannet - Earth's Future, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming in response to accumulation of human‐induced greenhouse gases inside
the atmosphere has already caused several visible consequences, among them increase of …

Doubling of coastal flooding frequency within decades due to sea-level rise

S Vitousek, PL Barnard, CH Fletcher, N Frazer… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Global climate change drives sea-level rise, increasing the frequency of coastal flooding. In
most coastal regions, the amount of sea-level rise occurring over years to decades is …

Effects of Environmental and Climatic Changes on Coral Reef Islands

PS Kench - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Coral reef islands are low-lying, wave-deposited sedimentary landforms. Using an eco-
morphodynamic framework, this review examines the sensitivity of islands to climatic and …

The influence of coral reefs and climate change on wave‐driven flooding of tropical coastlines

E Quataert, C Storlazzi, A Van Rooijen… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A numerical model, XBeach, calibrated and validated on field data collected at Roi‐Namur
Island on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of Marshall Islands, was used to examine the …

Observations of wave transformation over a fringing coral reef and the importance of low‐frequency waves and offshore water levels to runup, overwash, and coastal …

OM Cheriton, CD Storlazzi… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Many low‐lying tropical islands are susceptible to sea level rise and often subjected to
overwash and flooding during large wave events. To quantify wave dynamics and wave …

Modeling multiple sea level rise stresses reveals up to twice the land at risk compared to strictly passive flooding methods

TR Anderson, CH Fletcher, MM Barbee, BM Romine… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Planning community resilience to sea level rise (SLR) requires information about where,
when, and how SLR hazards will impact the coastal zone. We augment passive flood …

Coral restoration for coastal resilience: Integrating ecology, hydrodynamics, and engineering at multiple scales

TS Viehman, BG Reguero, HS Lenihan… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The loss of functional and accreting coral reefs reduces coastal protection and resilience for
tropical coastlines. Coral restoration has potential for recovering healthy reefs that can …

The potential for coral reef restoration to mitigate coastal flooding as sea levels rise

LT Toth, CD Storlazzi, IB Kuffner, E Quataert… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The ability of reefs to protect coastlines from storm-driven flooding hinges on their capacity to
keep pace with sea-level rise. Here, we show how and whether coral restoration could …

Experimental investigation on cross-shore profile evolution of reef-fronted beach

Y Li, C Zhang, S Chen, H Qi, W Dai, H Zhu, T Sui… - Coastal …, 2025 - Elsevier
Physical experiments on cross-shore profile evolution of the reef-fronted beach are
conducted considering various offshore wave conditions and reef settings. Cross-shore …

[HTML][HTML] A nearshore evolution model for sandy coasts: IH-LANSloc

M Álvarez-Cuesta, IJ Losada, A Toimil - Environmental Modelling & …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents IH-LANSloc (IH-Long-term Anthropized coastlines Simulation tool for
local-scale studies), a numerical model that solves shoreline and nearshore evolution at …