Fig. 1: Global distribution of coastal vegetation and resulting wave transmission reduction. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Global distribution of coastal vegetation and resulting wave transmission reduction.

From: Cutting the costs of coastal protection by integrating vegetation in flood defences

Fig. 1: Global distribution of coastal vegetation and resulting wave transmission reduction.

a Global distribution of coastal vegetation belt width in metres. b Reduced wave transmission solely due to wave-vegetation interaction based on storm conditions with a return period of 100 years along global coastlines susceptible to flooding. Map is created with Python 3.8.10 (https://python.org) using Cartopy (v0.18.0. Met Office UK. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cartopy/0.18.0), GeoPandas v0.8.1 (https://geopandas.org) and Matplotlib v3.3.497.

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