Regional issues raised by sea-level rise and their policy implications

Issues raised by "incidental findings" and their ethical implications.

Sea-level rise by 2100.

IN HIS NEWS AND ANALYSIS PIECE REPORTING ON THE NEWLY RELEASED FIFTH ASSESSMENT report (AR5) by Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (“A Stronger IPCC Report,” 4 October, p. 23), R. A. Kerr highlights three fundamental conclusions about climate change that were assessed with equal or greater confi dence than in previous IPCC reports. He also points to th...

Modeling regional sea level rise using local tide gauge data

Currently regional mean sea level trends and variations are inferred from the analysis of several individual local tide gauge data that span only a long period of time at a given region. In this study, we propose using amodel to merge various tide gauge data, regardless of their time span, in a single solution, to estimate parameters representative of regional mean sea level trends. The propose...

DRAFT DRAFT WCRP White Paper : Sea - Level Rise and Regional Impacts Based on WCRP Regional Sea Level

Recent projections of global sea-level rise by 2100 C.E. range from 20 cm (Meehl et al., 2007) to as much as 2 m (Vermeer and Rahmsdorf, 2009; Pfeffer et al., 2008), and sea level is projected to rise in the coming centuries even further. Without adaptation, a rise by 0.5 m would displace 3.8 million people in the most fertile part of the Nile River Delta (FitzGerald et al., 2008). A rise by 2 ...

Contemporary sea level rise.

Measuring sea level change and understanding its causes has considerably improved in the recent years, essentially because new in situ and remote sensing observations have become available. Here we report on most recent results on contemporary sea level rise. We first present sea level observations from tide gauges over the twentieth century and from satellite altimetry since the early 1990s. W...