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Vulnerable areas and adapation measures for sea level rise along the coast of India

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Title Vulnerable areas and adapation measures for sea level rise along the coast of India
 
Creator Chauhan, O.S.
Unnikrishnan, A.S.
Menezes, A.A.A.
Jagtap, T.G.
Suneethi, J.
Furtado, R.
 
Subject sea level changes
vulnerability
greenhouse effect
climatic changes
palaeo studies
shorelines
environmental protection
coastal erosion
acclimatization
 
Description India has a coastline of about 7500 km with contrasting geological setting. Based upon the available models, global sea level rise of 10-25 cm per 100 year has been predicted due to emission of green house gases. To separate out the influences due to the global climatic changes, the available historical mean sea level data between 1920-1999 at 10 locations was evaluated. There is a large contrast in the deduced sea level changes. The sea level rise along the Gulf of Kachchh and the coast of West Bengal is the highest coast. However, along the Karnataka coast, there is a relative decrease in the sea level. Shoreline morphologies respond to prevalent hydrography and changes in the shoreline have been estimated and categorised broadly as erosive, dynamic, and depositional. The magnitude of tides has been predicted at 121 stations, which has high correlation with observed tides. Identification of most vulnerable areas of the Indian coastline determined from the risk assessment - carried out from the integration of physiographic evaluation, site-specific sea level changes, tidal environment and hydrography data are schematically presented
 
Date 2008-07-02T05:06:52Z
2008-07-02T05:06:52Z
2004
 
Type Conference Article
 
Identifier Proceedings of the Workshop on Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation due to Climate Change on Indian Water Resources, Coastal Zones and Human Health, eds. Gosain, A.K.; Sharma, S.K.; Bhattacharya, S.; Garg, A.; Rao, S. 83-94p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1156
 
Language en
 
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Publisher Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India