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Coastline Change App: Future Scenarios Fact Sheet

Factsheet

Virginia

Publication date: January 1, 2016

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The Future Scenarios module in the Coastline Change app lets users explore 50-year simulations showing how climate change and management actions may affect shoreline change across Virginia’s barrier islands, offering insight into long-term coastal evolution.

Subject Tags

  • Conservation Technology
  • Coastal

Summary

The Future Scenarios module of the Coastline Change app in the Coastal Resilience tool provides results from a modeling effort that allows users to explore how climate change combined with management actions over a 50-year time frame may affect the rates of shoreline change along a simulated Virginia barrier island system. In exploring the Future Scenarios module of the app, you can compare a variety of possible climate change and management scenarios and learn about potential long-term, large-scale coastline and barrier island evolution resulting from these change.