Coastal sea level rise with warming above 2 °C

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 47, 2016, Pages 13342-13347

  Jevrejeva, Svetlana ^a   Jackson, Luke P ^a,b   Riva, Riccardo E M ^c,d   Grinsted, Aslak ^e   Moore, John C ^f,g  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

2 warming; Coastal sea level rise; Probabilistic sea level projections; Regional sea level rise

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRAVITY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NORTH AMERICA; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEA; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEASHORE; TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

EID: 84996598286     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605312113     Document Type: Article

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