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Future reef growth can mitigate physical impacts of sea-level rise on atoll islands

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We present new detail on how future SLR will modify nonlinear wave transformation processes, shoreline wave energy and wave driven flooding on atoll islands. Frequent and destructive wave inundation is a primary climate-change hazard that may render atoll islands uninhabitable in the near future. However, limited research has examined the physical vulnerability of atoll islands to future SLR and sparse information is available to implement process based coastal management on coral reef environments. We utilize a field-verified numerical model capable of resolving all nonlinear wave transformation processes to simulate how future SLR will modify wave dissipation and overtopping on Funafuti Atoll,
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hal-01588674 , version 1 (16-09-2017)

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Edward S Beetham, Paul S Kench, Stéphane Popinet. Future reef growth can mitigate physical impacts of sea-level rise on atoll islands. Earth's Future, 2017, 5 (10), pp.1002-1014 ⟨10.1002/2017EF000589⟩. ⟨hal-01588674⟩
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