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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0297178
	Modeling the potential impact of storm surge and sea level rise on coastal archaeological heritage: A case study from Georgia
	Howland, Matthew D.; Thompson, Victor D.
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1932-6203
起始页码	19
结束页码	2
卷号	19 期号:2
英文摘要	Climate change poses great risks to archaeological heritage, especially in coastal regions. Preparing to mitigate these challenges requires detailed and accurate assessments of how coastal heritage sites will be impacted by sea level rise (SLR) and storm surge, driven by increasingly severe storms in a warmer climate. However, inconsistency between modeled impacts of coastal erosion on archaeological sites and observed effects has thus far hindered our ability to accurately assess the vulnerability of sites. Modeling of coastal impacts has largely focused on medium-to-long term SLR, while observations of damage to sites have almost exclusively focused on the results of individual storm events. There is therefore a great need for desk-based modeling of the potential impacts of individual storm events to equip cultural heritage managers with the information they need to plan for and mitigate the impacts of storm surge in various future sea level scenarios. Here, we apply the Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) model to estimate the risks that storm surge events pose to archaeological sites along the coast of the US State of Georgia in four different SLR scenarios. Our results, shared with cultural heritage managers in the Georgia Historic Preservation Division to facilitate prioritization, documentation, and mitigation efforts, demonstrate that over 4200 archaeological sites in Georgia alone are at risk of inundation and erosion from hurricanes, more than ten times the number of sites that were previously estimated to be at risk by 2100 accounting for SLR alone. We hope that this work encourages necessary action toward conserving coastal physical cultural heritage in Georgia and beyond.
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001181689500012
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/289375
作者单位	Wichita State University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Howland, Matthew D.,Thompson, Victor D.. Modeling the potential impact of storm surge and sea level rise on coastal archaeological heritage: A case study from Georgia[J],2024,19(2).
APA	Howland, Matthew D.,&Thompson, Victor D..(2024).Modeling the potential impact of storm surge and sea level rise on coastal archaeological heritage: A case study from Georgia.PLOS ONE,19(2).
MLA	Howland, Matthew D.,et al."Modeling the potential impact of storm surge and sea level rise on coastal archaeological heritage: A case study from Georgia".PLOS ONE 19.2(2024).