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Salt marsh response to inlet switch-induced increases in tidal inundation

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2023-01

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Brian Yellen, Jonathan Woodruff, Hannah Baranes, Simon E. Engelhart, W. Rockwell Geywer, Noa Randall, and Frances R. Griswold, 2023-01, Salt marsh response to inlet switch-induced increases in tidal inundation: JGR Earth Surface, v. 128, iss. 1.

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Abstract (from AGUPubsOnline): There is widespread concern that rapidly rising sea levels may drown salt marshes by exceeding the rate at which these important ecosystems can build elevation. A significant fraction of marshes reside within backbarrier estuaries, yet little attention has been paid to how changes in inlet geometry influences estuarine tides and marshes. In 1898, a coastal storm eroded a new inlet through the barrier beach that fronts the North-South Rivers Estuary in Massachusetts, USA. The new inlet shortened the North River by 5.6 km and lengthened the South River channel by the same amount. Modern measurements of tidal attenuation suggest that channel shortening abruptly increased mean high tide along the North River [...]

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  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • Northeast CASC

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citationTypeJournal Article
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value10.1029/2022JF006815
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