Sea level Rise impact on Singapore, Solomon Island, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu

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Sea level Rise impact on Singapore, Solomon Island, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu

Udayakumar Praveenkhanna

Author Affiliations

¹Institute of Ocean Management, Department of Ocean Management, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai-600025, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Earth Sci., Volume 1, Issue (5), Pages 7-14, October,25 (2013)

Abstract

Coastal areas of smaller islands are vulnerable to global sealevel rise due to climate change. But the impact in the current scenario is threatening because of the human preference for living in Coastal areas. The impact will be very devastating sometimes like total submergence. In this study, the sealevel of 1m, 2m, 3m, 4m, 5m rise and its influence on Singapore, Solomon Island, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu has been studied and its submergence area has been calculated using the screen shots for various sea level rise of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 meters obtained from the website http://flood.firetree.net/ and it is then digitized using ArcGIS to calculate the submergence area.

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