DRAFT DRAFT WCRP White Paper : Sea - Level Rise and Regional Impacts Based on WCRP Regional Sea Level
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چکیده
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 m could displace 187 million people globally (Nicholls et al., 2011).
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