Isolated and integrated effects of sea level rise, seasonal runoff shifts, and annual runoff volume on California’s largest water supply

2011 ◽  
Vol 405 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianzhong Wang ◽  
Hongbing Yin ◽  
Francis Chung
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Annual Runoff ◽  
Runoff Volume ◽  
Seasonal Runoff

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Jorge Daniel Taillant
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Gaseous Emissions ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Atmospheric Warming

This chapter sets the stage for a discussion on glacier vulnerability, explaining why it is important and how the author decided to become a cryoactivist (and work to protect the Earth’s frozen environment). It explains the basic relevance of glacier cover on the planet, glaciers’ general location by region of the Earth, and some of the most notorious characteristics of glaciers, their vulnerabilities, and the impacts caused by their accelerating melt, including sea level rise, glacier tsunamis, and ocean and atmospheric warming. The chapter also describes certain invisible subsurface glaciers in the little known and little understood periglacial environment. Finally, it outlines the rest of the book into its respective chapters and subject matter with a brief summary of each topic, covering sea level rise, water supply, albedo (reflectivity), gaseous emissions, glacier tsunamis, and ocean and air current warming, among others.

Good Morning, Atlantis!

World on Fire ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Mark Rowlands
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Good Morning ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Waves

This chapter describes the problems facing a particular coastal metropolis—Miami, Florida—in the face of sea-level rise induced by climate change. The science underlying sea-level rise is outlined, and important concepts such as marine ice cliff instability are introduced. Sea-level rises of between 1 and 7 feet can be expected by 2100, although where in this range such rises fall is a matter of significant uncertainty. Sinking beneath the waves—which would, barring significant architectural interventions, occur when sea-level rise reaches 5 to 7 feet—is the least of Miami’s problems. It will cease to exist as a viable city long before this, due to problems with water supply and disposal of wastewater, and the resulting financial crises engendered by this. Sea-level rise is far from the worst problem engendered by climate change. We focus on it only because it is easily quantified.

Glacial Contributions to 21st Century Sea Level Rise

Eos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Wheeling
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mass Change ◽  
Sources Of Uncertainty

Researchers identify the main sources of uncertainty in projections of global glacier mass change, which is expected to add about 8–16 centimeters to sea level, through this century.

Submergence, nutrient enrichment, and tropical storm impacts on Spartina alterniflora in the microtidal northern Gulf of Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 644 ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
JM Hill ◽  
PS Petraitis ◽  
KL Heck
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Spartina Alterniflora ◽  
Anthropogenic Impacts ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Hurricane Disturbance ◽  
Submergence Stress ◽  
Relative Sea Level Rise

Salt marshes face chronic anthropogenic impacts such as relative sea level rise and eutrophication, as well as acute disturbances from tropical storms that can affect the productivity of these important communities. However, it is not well understood how marshes already subjected to eutrophication and sea level rise will respond to added effects of episodic storms such as hurricanes. We examined the interactive effects of nutrient addition, sea level rise, and a hurricane on the growth, biomass accumulation, and resilience of the saltmarsh cordgrass Spartina alterniflora in the Gulf of Mexico. In a microtidal marsh, we manipulated nutrient levels and submergence using marsh organs in which cordgrasses were planted at differing intertidal elevations and measured the impacts of Hurricane Isaac, which occurred during the experiment. Prior to the hurricane, grasses at intermediate and high elevations increased in abundance. After the hurricane, all treatments lost approximately 50% of their shoots, demonstrating that added nutrients and elevation did not provide resistance to hurricane disturbance. At the end of the experiment, only the highest elevations had been resilient to the hurricane, with increased above- and belowground growth. Added nutrients provided a modest increase in above- and belowground growth, but only at the highest elevations, suggesting that only elevation will enhance resilience to hurricane disturbance. These results empirically demonstrate that S. alterniflora in microtidal locations already subjected to submergence stress is less able to recover from storm disturbance and suggests we may be underestimating the loss of northern Gulf Coast marshes due to relative sea level rise.

Estimating the risk of sea level rise to property

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Aschwanden ◽  
Georgia Warren-Myers ◽  
Franz Fuerst
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level
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