Shoreline Response to Rapid 20th Century Sea-Level Change along the Iranian Caspian Coast

Shoreline Response to Rapid 20th Century Sea-Level Change along the Iranian Caspian Coast

Kakroodi, A.A.
Kroonenberg, S.B.
Goorabi, A.
Yamani, M.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Geoscience & Engineering

2013-06-05

The Caspian Sea, the largest lake in the world, is characterized by rapid sea-level changes. This provides a real physical model of coastal response to rapid sea-level change in a period of just a few years, which might take a millennium along oceanic coasts. Between 1929 and 1995, the Caspian sea level experienced the last cycle, with a range of 63 m. This caused disastrous effects along the coast and destroyed many buildings, roads, farms, and other human property. During the preceding 48 years of sea-level fall, a large area of the sea bottom emerged, which was then used for the development of residential zones. That area had to be abandoned when sea level rose by almost 3 m in a period of 18 years. With the use of LANDSAT data, we calculated total shoreline shifts in 22 littoral cells, each cell containing three transects over a 3-km distance. Both landward and seaward shifts occur during rapid sea-level rise between 1977 and 2001.

rapid sea-level change
LANDSAT data
seaward and landward shift
Caspian Sea

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Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF)

0749-0208

https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-12-00173.1

Journal of Coastal Research, 30 (6), 2014

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