Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Moore, Laura J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Murray, A. Brad (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Physical geography.; Climate change.; Coasts.; Geomorphology.; Environmental management.; Physical Geography.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Coastal Sciences.; Climate Change.; Environmental Management.

This book presents chapters, written by leading coastal scientists, which collectively depict the current understanding of the processes that shape barrier islands and barrier spits, with an emphasis on the response of these landforms to changing conditions. A majority of the world's population...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: Observations and Conceptual Models of Barrier Response to Changing Climate
• Runaway barrier island transgression concept: global case studies
• Drowned barriers as archives of coastal response to sea-level rise
• Barrier island and estuary co-evolution in response to Holocene climate and sea-level change: Pamlico Sound and the Outer Banks Barrier Islands, North Carolina, USA
• Abrupt increase in washover deposition along a transgressive barrier island during the late 19th century acceleration in sea-level rise
• Follets Island: A case of unprecedented change and transition from rollover to subaqueous shoals
• Role of the foredune in controlling barrier island response to sea-level rise
• Part II: Mechanisms of Barrier Response to Changing Climate
• Geometric constraints on long-term barrier migration: From simple to surprising
• Shoreface controls on barrier evolution and shoreline change
• Morphodynamics of barrier response to sea-level rise
• The role of ecomorphodynamic feedbacks and landscape couplings in influencing the response of barriers to climate change
• The role of vegetation in determining dune morphology, exposure to sea-level rise, and storm-induced coastal hazards: A U.S. Pacific Northwest perspective
• Barrier islands as coupled human-landscape systems.