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SUBMITTER: Benninghoff M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594939 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Benninghoff Markus M Winter Christian C
Scientific reports 20190626 1
The Wadden Sea is a unique and important intertidal coastal zone under the pressure of changing driving forces (i.e. sea level rise, storm surges and increasing tidal range). In this study, we characterize the recent morphologic evolution of the German part of the Wadden Sea for the time period 1998 to 2016 based on a large dataset of available digital elevation models. A sediment budget analysis reveals that the Wadden Sea is accumulating sediment. Changes in the ratio of intertidal to subtidal ...[more]