Sea level rise projections for Northern Europe under RCP8.5

Climate Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-23

  Grinsted, Aslak ^a,b   Jevrejeva, Svetlana ^b,c   Riva, Riccardo E M ^d   Dahl Jensen, Dorthe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Oceanographic Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

British Isles; Coastal adaptation; Fennoscandia; Regional sea level; Relative sea level; Tail risk

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; GLACIOISOSTASY; ICE SHEET; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84932127581     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01309     Document Type: Article

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