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Impacts of Short – and Long-Term Weather Events on Southern California Coastal Environments
Changes in short- and long-term weather events can have major impacts on local coastal environments. Understanding the effects of global climatic change on southern California beaches, lagoons, coastal developments, marine resources, and marine habitats is crucial to coastal policy and decision-making. Weather events have time scale lengths varying from hours and days to several months and even decades. These events include storms, summer/winter seasonal changes, El Niño/La Niña events, and wet and dry decadal periods. Understanding the current and trending weather patterns will aid coastal planners and decision-makers and highlight the need for long-term data sets. Further, understanding the potential for combined extreme climate events, such as storm waves coinciding with high sea levels, is necessary to statistically assess the risk of damage to coastal structures. The probability of such an event needs to be statistically addressed and modeled to properly assess the risk of failure for indispensable structures such as power plants and harbor structures. Further, wave focusing from bottom bathymetry and island shadowing needs to be factored into any southern California, coastally located, storm event risk assessment. There is a need to identify where data are lacking and to fill existing gaps.
Impacts of Short – and Long-Term Weather Events on Southern California Coastal Environments
Changes in short- and long-term weather events can have major impacts on local coastal environments. Understanding the effects of global climatic change on southern California beaches, lagoons, coastal developments, marine resources, and marine habitats is crucial to coastal policy and decision-making. Weather events have time scale lengths varying from hours and days to several months and even decades. These events include storms, summer/winter seasonal changes, El Niño/La Niña events, and wet and dry decadal periods. Understanding the current and trending weather patterns will aid coastal planners and decision-makers and highlight the need for long-term data sets. Further, understanding the potential for combined extreme climate events, such as storm waves coinciding with high sea levels, is necessary to statistically assess the risk of damage to coastal structures. The probability of such an event needs to be statistically addressed and modeled to properly assess the risk of failure for indispensable structures such as power plants and harbor structures. Further, wave focusing from bottom bathymetry and island shadowing needs to be factored into any southern California, coastally located, storm event risk assessment. There is a need to identify where data are lacking and to fill existing gaps.
Impacts of Short – and Long-Term Weather Events on Southern California Coastal Environments
Elwany, M. H. S. (Autor:in) / Flick, R. E. (Autor:in) / Hamilton, M. M. (Autor:in) / Grove, R. S. (Autor:in)
California and the World Ocean 2002 ; 2002 ; Santa Barbara, California, United States
16.03.2005
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Impacts of Short-and Long-Term Weather Events on Southern California Coastal Environments
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