Sea Level Rise (Page 2)
More ice loss through snowfall on AntarcticaEurekAlert | 12 Dec 2012(Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)) Stronger snowfall increases future ice discharge from Antarctica. Global warming leads to more precipitation as warmer air holds more moisture -- hence earlier research suggested the Antarctic ice sheet might grow under climate change. Now a study published in Nature shows that a lot of the ice gain due to increased snowfall is countered by an acceleration of ice-flow to the ocean.
Southern Ocean | Climate Change | Global Warming | Sea Level Rise Experts available to discuss new paper detailing global sea level rise scenarioEurekAlert | 05 Dec 2012On Dec. 6, NOAA will release a technical report that estimates global mean sea level rise over the next century based on a comprehensive synthesis of existing scientific literature. The report finds that there is very high confidence (greater than 90 percent chance) that global mean sea level will rise at least 8 inches (0.2 meters) and no more than 6.6 feet (2 meters) by 2100, depending upon uncertainties associated with ice sheet loss and ocean warming.
Climate Change | Research | Sea Level Rise Evaluating the risk to Ramsar Sites from climate change induced sea level riseRamsar Convention | 04 Dec 2012This Briefing Note and the accompanying web map service and data sets, developed by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of Columbia University, provide a preliminary assessment of the risk to coastal wetlands designated as Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Sites) under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands from rising sea levels due to climate change.
Climate Change | Sea Level Rise Projected sea-level rise may be underestimatedEurekAlert | 27 Nov 2012The rate of sea-level rise in the past decades is greater than projected by the latest assessments of the IPCC, while global temperature increases in good agreement with its best estimates. This is shown by a study now published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and his colleagues compare climate projections to actual observations from 1990 up to 2011.
Research | Sea Level Rise Warming temperatures will change Greenland's faceEurekAlert | 13 Nov 2012(City College of New York) Global climate models abound. What is harder to pin down, is how a warmer global temperature might affect any specific region on Earth. Dr. Marco Tedesco, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, and a colleague have made the global local. Using a combination of climate models, they predict how different greenhouse gas scenarios would change the face of Greenland and impact sea level rise.
Atlantic Ocean | Climate Change | Global Warming | Sea Level Rise Why seas are rising ahead of predictionsEurekAlert | 02 Nov 2012(Geological Society of America) Sea levels are rising faster than expected from global warming, and University of Colorado geologist Bill Hay has a good idea why. The last official IPCC report in 2007 projected a global sea level rise between 0.2 and 0.5 meters by the year 2100. But current sea-level rise measurements meet or exceed the high end of that range and suggest a rise of one meter or more by the end of the century.
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