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Response of tidal flow regime and sediment transport in North Malé Atoll, Maldives, to coastal modification and sea level rise
Shuaib Rasheed
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Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
Simon C. Warder
Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
Yves Plancherel
Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, London, UK
Matthew D. Piggott
Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Short summary
Environmental issues arising due to coastal modification and future sea level scenarios are a major environmental hazard facing the Maldives today. Here, we carry out high-resolution tidal modelling of a Maldivian atoll for the first time and show that coastal modification in the island scale is capable of driving large-scale change in the wider atoll basin in a short time, comparable to that of long-term sea level rise scenarios and on par with observations.
Environmental issues arising due to coastal modification and future sea level scenarios are a...
