Increasing Capacity Of Local Scientists For Climate Change Impact and Vulnerability Assessments on the Indonesia Archipelagos Training in In-Situ/Satellite Sealevel

Abstract

Indonesia is an archipelagic country consisting of nearly 17,000 islands with a total coast line length exceeding of 81,000 km. The country borders two oceans with the sea water flows from Pacific to Indian Ocean passing the archipelago via the so called Indonesian water through flow. Indonesian sea waters have large variations of tidal regime, strong tides, and sea level rise (SLR) (Manurung, 2004). Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Affair of Indonesia predicted that more than 2000 small islands will be lost due to the impact of SLR. SLR is one of the impacts of global warming and will cause inundation of many small islands and coastal in Indonesia (BAAPENAS, 2010). Therefore, these islands will suffer from SLR evidence.