Sea Level Changes And Their Effects, International Ocean And Atmosphere Pacific Conference

Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific: OAP 95 SEA-LEVEL CHANGES AND THEIR EFFECTS * V ™*** Editors John Noye & Marcus Grzechnik SEA-LEVEL CHANGES AND THEIR EFFECTS Also published by World Scientific: Computational Techniques and Applications: CTAC93 Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Conference Edited by David Stewart, Henry Gardner and David Singleton Computational Techniques and Applications: CTAC95 Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference Edited by Robert L May and Alan K Easton Computational Techniques and Applications: CTAC97 Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial Conference Edited by John Noye, Michael Teubner and Andrew Gill Modelling Coastal Sea Processes Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific: OAP95 Edited by John Noye Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific: OAP 95 SEA-LEVEL CHANGES AND THEIR EFFECTS Editors John Noye Marcus Grzechnik National Tidal Facility The Flinders University of South Australia Australia V|S* World Scientific w l Singapore*• New Jersey* Singapore Jersey * LLondon * Hong Kong Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. P O Box 128, Fairer Road, Singapore 912805 USA office: Suite IB, 1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. SEAL-LEVEL CHANGES AND THEIR EFFECTS Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific: OAP95 Copyright © 2001 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN 981-02-3618-2 Printed in Singapore by World Scientific Printers Preface This book is one of the outcomes of the international Ocean and Atmosphere, Pacific (OAP 95) conference held in Adelaide, South Australia on 23-27 October 1995. The conference was organised by the National Tidal Facility (NTF) of the Flinders University of South Australia, as part of the South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project, funded by AusAID. The aim of me conference was to enhance interaction between local scientists in the South Pacific region and to link regional understanding of climate variability and sea level change to global developments. Two themes dominated the conference. Firstly, many presentations were concerned with the mathematical modelling of processes which occur in shallow coastal seas and secondly, many papers focused on changes in sea level and their associated effects. After the conference, so much interest was shown in these two area