Regional sea-level scenarios: Helping US Northeast plan for faster-than-global rise 1/19/171/19/2017 The report, Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States, provides regional sea-level rise scenarios and tools for coastal preparedness planning and risk management. The report provides a range of possible scenarios, from at least 1 foot of global sea-level rise by 2100 to a worst-case rise that is 1.6 feet higher than a scenario in a key 2012 study that the report updates.
The report also provides four additional global average sea-level rise scenarios through 2100: intermediate-low, intermediate, intermediate-high, and high. From Virginia through Maine and along the western Gulf of Mexico, sea-level rise is projected to be greater than the global average in nearly all global average sea level rise scenarios. For example, the sea in these regions would rise 1 to 1.6 feet higher than the global average rise of 3.3 feet under the intermediate scenario by 2100. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170119111004.htm
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