You can see how this looks in the figure below, along with
sea level change in other Scandinavian cities.
Planning for a
large sea level change, perhaps on the order of 1 meter in a century, requires reliable projections of the contributions from land ice.
A new study helps clarify how past and future
coastal sea level changes are related to local winds and large - scale ocean circulation.
The instrumental record of modern
sea level change shows evidence for onset of sea level rise during the 19th century.
With this in mind, rather than trying to make simplistic models to
understand sea level changes, perhaps a better approach is to look at what the experimental data actually says.
This is not the optimum place to study the relation
between sea level change and temperature change or governing equations.
A long record of ancient stone tools could tell us if the monkeys picked up tool use in response to an environmental stress, such as
rapid sea level changes, for example.
As we will discuss in this section, this makes it extremely difficult to reliably estimate what global,
absolute sea level changes have been.
Therefore, this study fills a gap, and provides real observational facts to assess the question of
present sea level changes.
The result is a dramatic image of
historic sea level change that goes beyond what is expected in the coming decades due to rapid global warming - induced ice cap melting.
The pattern of
sea level change associated with melting of a large ice mass is known as a «melt fingerprint,» because each ice mass produces a unique pattern.
This projection of future sea - level rise is based only on the satellite - observed changes over the last 25 y, assuming that
sea level changes similarly in the future.
One way to approach the problem of not understanding the process is to study how
sea level changed in the past.
In order to use tidal gauges to reliably estimate
global sea level changes, researchers have to successfully separate the components of shifting land heights and local sea level variability from any global trends.
But at the local level, it's been harder to estimate specific
regional sea level changes 10 or 20 years away - the critical timeframe for regional planners and decision makers.
Local sea level change, which is what really matters, is more directly and more effectively estimated from tide gauge records than from satellites.
Increased melting from high latitudes should produce an identifiable pattern
of sea level change («fingerprints») that may provide evidence of an acceleration in the rate of sea level rise.
To obtain information about
mean sea level changes at higher resolution is currently not practical; a regional model such as that of Kauker (1998) would be needed.
It shows — unequivocally — that there is no trend whatsoever in
sea level change at Tuvalu or any other island in the study.
Cross-cutting relationships are observed at the valley - scale, indicating multiple episodes of water level fall and rise, each well over 50 meters, a similar scale to
eustatic sea level changes on Earth.
IPCC scenarios, which range from a sea level rise of 28 to 98 cms this century, are based on the processes
driving sea level change, for instance how ice in Greenland reacts to rising temperatures or the expansion of water as it warms, he said.
Salinity changes within the ocean also have a significant impact on the local density and thus local sea level, but have little effect on global
average sea level change.
This is because, from the discussion above, we would expect to
see sea level changes, since global temperatures do seem to have changed over the last century (whether the temperature trends are man - made or natural in origin).
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