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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Mapping Coastal Erosion



There are lots of maps which help to visualize the danger of rising body of body of water levels to coastal communities. In exceptional Climate Central's novel interactive Coastal Risk Screening Tool is a groovy agency to detect which areas of the globe are close at adventure from the threat of rising seas levels. The Climate Central map shows all province across the globe which is predicted to move below annual inundation levels inwards 2050.

In the Great Britain a divulge of towns are at adventure from both rising body of body of water levels in addition to coastal erosion. Living on the Edge maps the 10 close at adventure coastal locations inwards the UK. For each of these x locations Confused.com has created an animated map which visualizes how much province the body of body of water is probable to pocket inwards the side yesteryear side 1 hundred years. The x private maps demo the body of body of water washing over the province equally fourth dimension passes in addition to render information on the total of shoreline which is probable to move eroded inwards 20, fifty in addition to 100 years time.

Each of the coastal erosion maps likewise provides details on the divulge of properties inwards the effected expanse in addition to the probable rebuild terms for a holding inwards this location. Of course, existence an insurance provider, Confused.com likewise render information inwards the average premium for insuring a holding inwards the effected area.