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Acceleration in U.S. Mean Sea Level? A New Insight using Improved Tools
- Source :
- Journal of Coastal Research. 322:1247-1261
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Coastal Education and Research Foundation, 2016.
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Abstract
- Watson, P.J., 2016. Acceleration in U.S. mean sea level? A new insight using improved tools. The detection of acceleration in mean sea level around the data-rich margins of the United States has been a keen endeavour of sea-level researchers following the seminal work of Bruce Douglas in 1992. Over the past decade, such investigations have taken on greater prominence given mean sea level remains a key proxy by which to measure a changing climate system. The physics-based climate projection models are forecasting that the current global average rate of mean sea-level rise (≈3 mm/y) might climb to rates in the range of 10–20 mm/y by 2100. Most research in this area has centred on reconciling current rates of rise with the significant accelerations required to meet the forecast projections of climate models. The analysis in this paper is based on a recently developed analytical package titled “msltrend,” specifically designed to enhance estimates of trend, real-time velocity and acceleration in the ...
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Ecology
Meteorology
Climate system
Climate change
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
01 natural sciences
Proxy (climate)
Climatology
Climb
Climate model
Sea level
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Earth-Surface Processes
Water Science and Technology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15515036 and 07490208
- Volume :
- 322
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Coastal Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........57fd12e2dc2a095b49f46e5fe5cd29ee