Sentences with phrase «improve sea level rise projections»

«Data from the past helped calibrate our model, and will improve sea level rise projections under scenarios of future temperature increases,» says Rahmstorf.

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Improving projections for how much ocean levels may change in the future and what that means for coastal communities has vexed researchers studying sea level rise for years, but a new international study that incorporates extreme events may have just given researchers and coastal planners what they need.

«The holy grail of all of this work is improving sea - level rise projections,» she added.

No single entity is capable of addressing the vast needs for improved climate services in these nations: for everything from projections of future sea - level rise that help planners identify places to build and develop that are out of harm's way, to maps that overlay population, infrastructure, and climate data to help decision makers target resources to areas of greatest vulnerability.

Projections of sea level rise are larger than in the AR4, primarily because of improved modeling of land - ice contributions.»

Much process - based research coupling field work, remote sensing, and modeling is required to advance assessment of the likelihood of a threshold - crossing leading to abrupt sea - level rise from the ice sheets, as well as to improve projections of moregradual sea - level rise that could lead to threshold - crossing events in other systems.

«And that if we really want to have meaningful information that, you know, planners can use to build seawalls and things, there's going to have to be a big push to improve our projections of sea level rise using models.»