About the Authors

Barbara Neumann

neumann@geographie.uni-kiel.de

Affiliation Institute of Geography, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Athanasios T. Vafeidis

Affiliation Institute of Geography, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Juliane Zimmermann

Affiliation Institute of Geography, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Robert J. Nicholls

Affiliation Faculty of Engineering and the Environment and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BN ATV RJN. Performed the experiments: BN ATV JZ. Analyzed the data: BN ATV JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BN ATV JZ RJN. Wrote the paper: BN ATV RJN JZ.