The effect of climate change on the mobility and stability of coastal sand dunes in Ceará State (NE Brazil)

Tsoar, Haim; Levin, Noam; Porat, Naomi; Parente Maia, Luís; J. Herrmann, Hans; Hatsue Tatumi, Sônia; Claudino-Sales, Vanda

doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2008.12.001

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The effect of climate change on the mobility and stability of coastal sand dunes in Ceará State (NE Brazil)

Published in Quaternary Research • Jan 19, 2009

Authors:

Haim Tsoar

Noam Levin

Naomi Porat

Abstract

Abstract The coast of Ceará State in NE Brazil is covered by vast fields of active and stabilized coastal sand dunes. Its tropical climate is characterized by two seasons, wet and dry, with wind intensity determined by the meridional shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. The wind power is neg...

Subject

Geology

Precipitation

Intertropical Convergence Zone

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