| Title | Assessing future coastline change in the vicinity of tidal inlets via reduced complexity modelling |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Bamunawala, Janaka, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Ad van der Spek, Shreedhar Maskey, and Keiko Udo |
| Secondary Title | Journal of Coastal Research. Special Issue |
| Volume | no.85 |
| Pagination | p.636-640 |
| Date Published | 2018, May 1 |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Electronic Subscription |
| Keywords | Alsea Bay, climate, coastal hazards, erosion, human impacts, mathematical modeling, precipitation, sea levels, sediments, streamflow |
| Notes | While there are good models for shoreline changes due to sea level rise, there has not heretofore been a good model that captures all factors that affect these changes. In this paper, the authors compare Kalutara Inlet in Sri Lanka and the Alsea estuary using a model that accounts for both climate change and anthropogenic forcing. Their results show that human activity could determine the supply of sediment from rivers to the coast, which will affect the shoreline. They find that the Alsea estuary may lose approximately 30 meters to a rising ocean by 2100. Illustrations. |
| DOI | 10.2112/SI85-128.1 |
| Series Title | Journal of Coastal Research. Special Issue |
