Climate Change - Sea level

This page presents notes on scientific published articles related to Sea level.

Article: "Direct Determination of the Timing of Sea Level Change During Terminiation 11." Sea level 136,000 years ago was 18 metres below present sea level; 168,000 years ago was 38 metres below. These are in conflict with Milankovitch theory predictions of orbital forcing of glacial cycles. Source: Science, Volume 295, Number 5553. Date: 2002 January 11

Article: "Rapid Wastage of Alaska Glaciers and Their Contribution to Rising Sea Level." Average rate of thickness change of Alaska glaciers from mid-1950s to mid-1990s was -0.52 metres per year. Estimated total volume change of Alaska glaciers from 1950s to 1990s is -52 cubic Km per year, contributing 0.14 mm per year to sea level rise. Rate of change from small group of glaciers from mid-1990s to 2001 indicate -1.8 metres epr year average rate of thinning, suggesting 0.27 mm per year rate of sea level rise in past decade from all Alaska glaciers. Source: Science, Volume 297, Number 5580. Date: 2002 July 19

Article: "Acceleration of Greenhouse ice mass loss in spring 2004." From April 2002 to April 2006, Greenland ice mass loss detected as 248 +/- 36 km3/year, equivalent to global sea level rise of 0.4-0.6 mm/year (5 cm in 100 years if constant). Spring 2004 saw a dramatic change in the rate of ice mass loss. Too early to tell if this is a true long-term increase. Source: Nature, Volume 443, Number 7109. Date: 2006 September 21

Article: "Recent Greenland Ice Mass Loss by Drainage System from Satellite Gravity Observations." From 2003 to 2005, ice sheet lost net 100 gigatons per year. Greenland ice sheet mass loss contributes 0.28 mm/year to global sea level rise, about ten percent of observed total rise. Source: Science, Volume 314, Number 5803. Date: 2006 November 24

Article: "A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise." The rate of sea-level rise is roughly proportional to the magnitude of warming of near-surface air temperature since pre-Industrial Age. Rate constant at 3.4mm/year per degree Celcius. Sea-level rise by year 2100 over 1990 level is projected to be 0.5 to 1.4 mm. Source: Science, Volume 315, Number 5810. Date: 2007 January 19

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