Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1717312115
Publication Title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume
115
Issue
9
Pages
2022-2025
Abstract
Using a 25-y time series of precision satellite altimeter data from TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3, we estimate the climate-change-driven acceleration of global mean sea level over the last 25 y to be 0.084 ± 0.025 mm/y2. Coupled with the average climate-change-driven rate of sea level rise over these same 25 y of 2.9 mm/y, simple extrapolation of the quadratic implies global mean sea level could rise 65 ± 12 cm by 2100 compared with 2005, roughly in agreement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report (AR5) model projections.
Rights
This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND).
Original Publication Citation
Nerem, R. S., Beckley, B. D., Fasullo, J. T., Hamlington, B. D., Masters, D., & Mitchum, G. T. (2018). Climate-change-driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(9), 2022-2025. doi:10.1073/pnas.1717312115
Repository Citation
Nerem, R. S.; Beckley, B. D.; Fasullo, J. T.; Hamlington, B. D.; Masters, D.; and Mitchum, G. T., "Climate-Change-Driven Accelerated Sea-Level Rise Detected in the Altimeter Era" (2018). CCPO Publications. 222.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ccpo_pubs/222
ORCID
0000-0002-2315-6425 (Hamlington)