An Overview of Asian Mega-Deltas: Forcing Factors, Responses, and Evolutions

Melanie Becker1, Marta Marcos2, Rafael Almar3, Paul D Bates4, Anny A Cazenave5, Christian France-Lanord6, Makan Karegar7, Mikhail Karpytchev8, Jamal U Khan1, Nathalie Long1, Robert J Nicholls9, Fabrice Papa10, Amelia Paszkowski11, MS Hossain12, Philip Ward13 and ISSI Working Group on Asian Mega-deltas, (1)CNRS/LIENSS, La Rochelle, France, (2)Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (UIB-CSIC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, (3)Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), IRD, Toulouse, France, (4)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, LEGOS-CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS, Toulouse, France, (6)CNRS CRPG, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France, (7)University of Bonn, Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation, Bonn, Germany, (8)CNRS ULR, La Rochelle, France, (9)University of East Anglia, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich, United Kingdom, (10)LEGOS Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France, (11)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (12)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (13)IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands