EC33B:
Coasts in Crisis: Sea Level Rise and Inundation and the Drivers for Adaptation II


Session ID#: 11316

Session Description:
Sea-level rise, a dominant driving force of coastal change, along with altered wave conditions, storm intensity and ocean circulation patterns, is increasingly evident and important as a persistent and long term hazard worldwide. The geologic record shows that sea level has been as much as ~8 m higher and ~130 m lower than today within a timeframe that, though in a geological extent, coincides mostly with current coastal settings.. Sea-level rise, with high regional variability, is accelerating and is expected to continue for centuries, with rise of 0.5 to 2 m predicted by 2100. Inherent with this process is the expected increase in enhanced coastal storm and inundation activity – further enhancing coastal flooding and damage. Adaptation planning is advisable with reliable and validated models for predicting coastal change and inundation resulting from storms and rise. Papers invited include the impacts of sea-level rise, storms, waves on coasts; field and numerical model studies of storm surge, waves and inundation predictions and effects; links between warming and sea-level rise; assessments of coastal impacts; examples of adaptation and/or adaptive planning; national and regional investigations and/or policy of coastal elevation and change; and case studies.
Primary Chair:  Charles J Lemckert, Griffith University, Griffith School of Engineering, Nathan, QLD, Australia
Chairs:  Gonzalo Malvárez, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Responsable Área Geografía Física, Sevilla, Spain, James Andrew Cooper, University of Ulster, School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Coleraine, United Kingdom and S Jeffress Williams, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Moderators:  Charles J Lemckert, Griffith University, Griffith School of Engineering, Nathan, QLD, Australia and S Jeffress Williams, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Gonzalo Malvárez, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Responsable Área Geografía Física, Sevilla, Spain
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • HI - Human Use and Impacts
  • MG - Marine Geology & Sedimentology
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
  • PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

EC33B-01
Probabilistic Mapping of Storm-induced Coastal Inundation for Climate Change Adaptation (87441)
Ning Li1, Yoshiki Yamazaki1, Volker Roeber2, Kwok Fai Cheung1 and Gary Chock3, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Angret, France, (3)Martin & Chock, Inc., Honolulu, HI, United States
EC33B-02
Coastal bluffs, dunes and the future of New York’s ocean shoreline (87640)
Hanlu Huang, Graduate Student at SoMAS, Stony Brook University and Henry Bokuniewicz, Distinguished Service Professor, SoMAS, Stony Brook, NY, United States
EC33B-03
Sea level variability in the coastal ocean induced by atmospheric forcing for the period 1871-2012 (93712)
Gabriel Jorda, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Gilbert P Compo, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, R Steven Nerem, Univ of CO-Aerospace Egrg Sci, Boulder, CO, United States and Florent Lyard, LEGOS, Toulouse, France
EC33B-04
Joint projections of sea level and storm surge using a flood index (88755)
Christopher M Little, Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, Ning Lin, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Radley M Horton, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, NJ, United States
EC33B-05
Sea level at the coast : what are the major contributors to its variability and trend and how do they differ from the open ocean ? (89716)
Angelique Melet, Benoit Meyssignac and Rafael Almar, LEGOS, CNES, Toulouse, France
EC33B-06
Back-Barrier Water Level Response to Offshore Fluctuations (89824)
Alfredo Aretxabaleta, Neil K Ganju, Bradford Butman and Zafer Defne, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States
EC33B-07
Future Extreme Sea Level Seesaws in the Tropical Pacific (90250)
Matthew J Widlansky, University of Hawaii at Manoa, JIMAR, Honolulu, HI, United States, Axel Timmermann, IPRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Wenju Cai, Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research (CSHOR), CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia
EC33B-08
Sedimentary and Microfossil Record of the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan Deposit from the Leyte Gulf, Philippines (90541)
Jessica Pilarczyk1,2, Benjamin Peter Horton2,3, Lea Soria4, Adam D Switzer5, Hermann M Fritz6, Fernando Pascual Siringan7, Nicole Khan2, Sorvigenaleon Ildefonso4, Riovi Ramos4, Angel Doctor7 and Mikko Garcia7, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Technology, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (4)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (5)Nanyang Technological University, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (6)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, (7)Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Metro Manila, Philippines
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