Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate

Part I: Observations and Conceptual Models of Barrier Response to Changing Climate.- Runaway barrier island transgression concept: global case studies.- Drowned barriers as archives of coastal response to sea-level rise.- Barrier island and estuary co-evolution in response to Holocene climate and sea-level change: Pamlico Sound and the Outer Banks Barrier Islands, North Carolina, USA.- Abrupt increase in washover deposition along a transgressive barrier island during the late 19th century acceleration in sea-level rise.- Follets Island: A case of unprecedented change and transition from rollover to subaqueous shoals.- Role of the foredune in controlling barrier island response to sea-level rise.- Part II: Mechanisms of Barrier Response to Changing Climate.- Geometric constraints on long-term barrier migration: From simple to surprising.- Shoreface controls on barrier evolution and shoreline change.- Morphodynamics of barrier response to sea-level rise.- The role of ecomorphodynamic feedbacks and landscape couplings in influencing the response of barriers to climate change.- The role of vegetation in determining dune morphology, exposure to sea-level rise, and storm-induced coastal hazards: A U.S. Pacific Northwest perspective.- Barrier islands as coupled human-landscape systems.

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• Gestão da terra e recursos naturais
• Deltas, estuários, regiões costeiras
• Aquecimento global
• Processos geológicos superficiais (geomorfologia)

Barrier Islands;Barrier Spits;Climate Change;Coastal geology;Coastal vulnerability;Geomorphologic change;Sea-level rise;Sediment Transport;Shoreline change;Climate change management;coastal sciences