Environmental News Network: Scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) published a study today in Nature Climate Change showing that besides marine inundation (flooding), low-lying coastal areas may also be vulnerable to groundwater inundation, a factor largely unrecognized in earlier predictions on the effects of sea level rise. Ground-water flooding or inundation occurs in low-lying areas when the water table rises above the land surface. Previous research has predicted that by the end of the century, sea level......
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Ground Water Inundation
Posted by Environmental News Network: Andy Soos on November 14th, 2012
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