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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
159Understanding Sea Level Rise and CoastalHazards
of O(10
−2
−100 s). In contrast, the length and the evolutionary timescales
for the barrier beach are O(10
4
−10
6
m) and O(10
7
−10
10
s), respectively. Such
a space–time hierarchical classication helps us recognize that we must
be able to model the role of sand grains in the development of large land-
forms from a basic knowledge of grain motion together with iterative inter-
actions between landforms at all intermediate scales and the respective
forces. Morphodynamic modeling attempts to achieve this aim by meansof
co-adjustments between forces, processes, and forms as they evolve over
different ...
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