Sea-level rise and inundation scenarios for national parks in South Florida
Park J, Stabenau E, Koutun K. 2017. Sea-level rise and inundation scenarios for national parks in South Florida. Park Science. 33(1):63-73
National parks in South Florida are intimately connected to the sea. As sea levels rise, coastal regions of these parks experience both physical and ecological changes. Based on a state-of-the-art sea-level rise projection we propose two sea-level rise trajectories for South Florida, a low projection for general planning purposes and a high projection for risk assessment of sensitive ecological or physical systems. Sea-level rise projections only consider long time horizons; on shorter time scales the growth of recurrent coastal inundation events and storm surges have immediate ecological and physical impacts and we provide quantitative assessments of these processes.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Park, Joseph; Stabenau, Erik; Koutun, Kevin
- Units
- BICY , BISC , DRTO , EVER
- Keywords
- inundation, sea-level rise, South Florida