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- 4. Sea Level Trend Shoreline Change Rate Long Term Sea Level Data from tide gauges Satellite and Secondary data DEM data Return periods (T) Extreme water level (H max ) Future Sea Level after T (A) Future Shoreline after T (B) Contours Multi-hazard Line=A>B>C Contour of H max (C) Methodology for multi-hazard coastal vulnerability Multi-hazard Map
- 6. Mean-sea-level-rise trends along the north Indian Ocean coasts from past tide-gauge records Estimated trends vary from 1.06 to 1.75 mm/year for individual records (an average of 1.30 mm/year) Unnikrishnan and Shankar (2007) Net sea-level-rise trends 5.74 -0.52 5.22 55 Diamond Harbour 1.09 -0.39 0.70 53 Vishakhaptnam 1.75 -0.44 1.31 54 Kochi 1.20 -0.43 0.77 113 Mumbai 1.06 -0.45 0.61 44 Karachi 1.37 -0.16 1.21 58 Aden Net sea level rise (mm/yr) GIA (mm/yr) Trends (mm/yr) No of years Station
- 8. Calculation of Shoreline Change Rate (1972-2000)
- 9. Landward Shoreline after 100 year
- 10. Multi-hazard Map of Cuddalore Area
- 11. Composite Multi-hazard line overlaid on the Google Earth
- 12. Zoomed area of the Cuddalore Town
- 13. Multi-hazard vulnerability map of Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh * 236 villages are under the multi-hazard line
- 14. Srinivasa Kumar T, Mahendra R S, Shailesh Nayak, Radhakrishnan K R and Sahu K C, “ Coastal Vulnerability Assessment for Orissa Coast”, 2009, Journal of Coastal Research, Accepted Coastal Vulnerability Index for the Orissa Coast S. No Parameter Length (km) Low Medium High 1 Shoreline change rate 231 194 55 2 Significant wave height 0 480 0 3 Sea-level change rate 23 166 292 4 Tidal range 141 302 37 5 Coastal regional elevation 91 182 207 6 Coastal slope 10 41 429 7 Tsunami run-up 31 327 121 8 Coastal geomorphology 39 74 367 9 CVI 76 297 107
- 15. 0.8 ° C 0.4 ° C Source- http://worldviewofglobalwarming.org
- 16. 8 0 ppm of CO2 concentration due to human contributions ! 7.7 ° F 300 ppm 380 ppm Major polluters ?