Category Archives: Oceans

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part VII U.S. coastal impacts

Posted on April 15, 2018 by | 96 comments

by Judith Curry

The final installment in the CE series on sea level rise.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Oceans

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part VI. Projections for the 21st century

Posted on April 2, 2018 by | 332 comments

by Judith Curry

The concern about sea level rise is driven primarily by projections of future sea level rise.

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Sea level rise acceleration (or not). Part V: detection & attribution

Posted on March 21, 2018 by | 134 comments

by Judith Curry

In looking for causes, I have applied the ‘Sherlock Holmes procedure’ of eliminating one suspect after another. The procedure has left us without any good suspect. Thermal expansion was the candidate of choice at the time of the first IPCC review. The computed steric rise is too little, too late, and too linear. – Walter Munk

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Will advances in groundwater science force a paradigm shift in sea level rise attribution?

Posted on March 4, 2018 by | 117 comments

by Jim Steele

 A better accounting of natural groundwater discharge is needed to constrain the range of contributions to sea level rise. The greater the contribution from groundwater discharge, the smaller the adjustments used to amplify contributions from meltwater and thermal expansion.

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Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part IV – Satellite era record

Posted on February 17, 2018 by | 207 comments

by Judith Curry

Part IV of the Climate Etc. series on sea level rise focuses on the satellite era (since 1993), including the recent causes of sea level variations and arguments regarding the acceleration (or not) of recent sea level rise.

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Posted in Data and observations, Oceans

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part III – 19th & 20th century observations

Posted on February 10, 2018 by | 95 comments

By Judith Curry

“We are in the uncomfortable position of extrapolating into the next century without understanding the last.” – Walter Munk 

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Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part II – The geological record

Posted on January 24, 2018 by | 107 comments

By Judith Curry

Part II of the Climate Etc. series on sea level rise –the geological record provides context for the recent sea level rise.

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Posted in Oceans