The Sea Level Conundrum: Insights From Paleo Studies

International audience Empirical Constraints on Future Sea Level Rise; Bern, Switzerland, 25-29 August 2008; Eustatic sea level (ESL) rise during the 21st century is perhaps the greatest threat from climate change, but its magnitude is contested. Geological records identify examples of nonlinear ice...

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Published in:Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Main Authors: Siddall, Mark, Clark, Peter, Thompson, Bill, Waelbroeck, Claire, Gregory, Jonathan, Stocker, Thomas
Other Authors: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2009
Subjects:
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Paleoceanography: Glacial
Cryosphere: Ice sheets
Paleoceanography: Interhemispheric phasing
Earth Science
Global Change: Sea level change (1222
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Global Change: Climate variability (1635
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[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-04113778
https://doi.org/10.1029/2009EO090007
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Summary:International audience Empirical Constraints on Future Sea Level Rise; Bern, Switzerland, 25-29 August 2008; Eustatic sea level (ESL) rise during the 21st century is perhaps the greatest threat from climate change, but its magnitude is contested. Geological records identify examples of nonlinear ice sheet response to climate forcing, suggesting a strategy for refining estimates of 21st-century sea level change. In August 2008, Past Global Changes (PAGES), International Marine Past Global Change Study (IMAGES), and the University of Bern cosponsored a workshop to address this possibility. The workshop highlighted several ways that paleoceanography studies can place limits on future sea level rise, and these are enlarged upon here.

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