The probability of sea level rise

Date

1995

Authors

Titus, J.G.
Narayanan, V.K.

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Publisher

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Abstract

This report develops probability-based projections that can be added to local tide-gauge trends to estimate future sea level at particular locations. It uses the same models employed by previous assessments of sea level rise. The key coefficients in those models are based on subjective probability distributions supplied by a cross-section of climatologists, oceanographers, and glaciologists. The experts who assisted this effort were mostly authors of previous assessments by the National Academy of Sciences and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Description

186 pages

Keywords

sea level changes, greenhouse effect, climatic changes, thermal expansion, atmospheric precipitations, ice caps, glaciers, temperature

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