Noye J., Grzechnik M. (Eds.) Sea-level changes and their effects

World Scientific, 2001. — 314 p.
This book is one of the outcomes of the international Ocean and Atmosphere, Pacific (OAP 95) conference held in Adelaide, South Australia on 23-27 October 1995. The conference was organised by the National Tidal Facility (NTF) of the Flinders University of South Australia, as part of the South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project, funded by AusAID. The aim of me conference was to enhance interaction between local scientists in the South Pacific region and to link regional understanding of climate variability and sea level change to global developments.
Two themes dominated the conference. Firstly, many presentations were concerned with the mathematical modelling of processes which occur in shallow coastal seas and secondly, many papers focused on changes in sea level and their associated effects. After the conference, so much interest was shown in these two areas, that the NTF canvassed delegates who had given outstanding papers, to determine whether they would be prepared to produce extended and updated versions of their presentations for publication in reviewed books, the cost to be borne by the NTF.
The first book to result from this NTF initiative, was published late last year with the title "Modelling Coastal Sea Processes". The present book, titled "Sea- Level Changes and Their Effects", is the second in this series. Articles included in this volume were selected on both their scientific merit and their usefulness to physical oceanographers, marine biologists and coastal developers. They cover a wide range of topics including the effects of longterm sea-level rise on flows in coral lagoons and its impact on mangroves, the determination of long-term sea-level change relative to vertical land movement, to the numerical modelling of short term sea-level changes due to tides and tsunamis and the relative effects of oceanic tides and meteorological events on sea-levels and currents in coastal waters.