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Global sea level rise | Understanding sea level | Research groups | Trends and projections | Impacts | Graphics and visualisations | News
Components of sea level rise | Solid-Earth | Oceans | Land ice | Hydrology
Instruments and data | Altimetry | GRACE | CRYOSAT-2 | ENVISAT | ICESAT | Argo buoys | Tide gauges | River gauges
Methods and software | Bayesian Hierarchical Model | Similar approaches
Models


Global sea level rise

Understanding sea level

Sea level change portal (NASA)
Global sea level (NOAA)
• Regional sea-level change and coastal impacts (WCRP)
Regional sea-level change and coastal impacts (CLIVAR)
• Sea level rise (CSIRO)

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Research groups

• Sea level group (University of Colorado)
• Sea level program (ESA climate change initiative)
Sea level center (University of Hawaii)

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Trends and projections

• Chapter 13: Sea Level Change from IPCC Climate Change 2013 (AR5): The Physical Science Basis.
Global and European sea level indicator (European Environment Agency)
• Case studies: Satellite observations in support of climate challenges (CEOS EO Handbook)
• Special issue of Surveys in Geophysics: ISSI Workshop on “Integrative Study of the Mean Sea Level and its Components” (2017)
• Probabilistic reanalysis of twentieth-century sea-level rise by Hay, Morrow, Kopp and Mitrovica (2015). Published in Nature 517, 481–484.
• An increase in the rate of global mean sea level rise since 2010 by Yi, Sun, Heki and Qian (2015). Published in Geophysical Research Letters Volume 42, Issue 10, Pages 3998–4006.
• Unabated global mean sea-level rise over the satellite altimeter era by Watson, White, Church, King, Burgette and Legresy (2015). Published in Nature Climate Change 5, 565–568.
• Twentieth century sea level: An enigma by Munk (2002). Published in PNAS volume. 99, number.10, pages 6550-6555.

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Impacts

• Chapter 5: Coastal Systems and Low-Lying Areas in Climate Change 2014 (AR5): Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.
• Mapping Choices: Carbon, Climate, and Rising Seas, Our Global Legacy. A Climate Central Research Report by Strauss, Kulp and Levermann (2015).
The Global Impacts of Extreme Sea-Level Rise: A Comprehensive Economic Assessment by Pycroft, Abrell and Ciscar (2016). Published in Environmental and Resource Economics, Volume 64, Issue 2, pp 225–253.
• Future Coastal Population Growth and Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding – A Global Assessment by Neumann , Vafeidis, Zimmermann and Nicholls (2015). Published in PLOS ONE 10(3): e0118571.

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Graphics and visualisations

• What is Sea Level? animation (Henry Reich, MinutePhysics)
• Sea level rise infographic (NASA)
Animated spiral of sea level rise 1913 to 2016 (Ed Hawkins)
Global sea level rise 1992 to 2014 (NASA)
Global sea level trends map (NOAA)
• Sea level rise maps (Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, CReSIS)
Coastal Risk Zone Map (Climate Central)
Seeing Choices (Climate Central)
Mapping Choices (Climate Central)
• Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts map (NOAA, for North America only)
• Polar Explorer sea level app (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)

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Sea level news

• The Guardian
BBC
• Scientific American
• AGU Earth & Space Science
World Resources Institute
• Surging Seas by Climate Central

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Components of sea level rise

Solid-Earth

• EGU Tectonics and Structural Geology Division
• EGU Geodesy Division

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Oceans

EGU Ocean Sciences Division
• National Oceanographic Centre
• Center for Topographic studies of the Ocean and Hydrosphere
• NASA JPL Ocean Surface Topography from Space
• Sea Surface Temperature program (ESA Climate Change Initiative)
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Ocean and Ice Processes (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)

Graphics and visualisations:

• Animation of sea surface temperature (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)
• Circulation of the Southern Ocean (National Computational Infrastructure)
Ocean Currents and Circulation datasets (Science on a Sphere, NOAA)

Research projects:

• ECCO – Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean

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Land ice

EGU Cryospheric Sciences Division
Climate and Cryosphere (WCRP)
National Snow and Ice Data Centre
The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets
• Ocean and Ice Processes (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)
• British Antarctic Survey
• Arctic Research Programme and Arctic Office (NERC)
Polar Portal (Danish Arctic research institutions)
Arctic Program and Report Card (NOAA)
• Greenland Ice Sheet program (ESA Climate Change Initiative)
• Antarctic Ice Sheet program (ESA Climate Change Initiative)
• Glaciers program (ESA Climate Change Initiative)
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS)
World Glacier Monitoring Service
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling

Graphics and visualisations:

Global Ice Viewer (NASA)
Age of sea ice animation (NASA Earth Observatory)
• Assorted global sea ice graphics (ArctischePinguin)
• Animated spiral of global sea ice area 1978 to 2017 (Ed Hawkins)
• Graph of Arctic sea ice volume spiral 1979 to 2016 (Andy Robinson)
• Animated Arctic sea ice volume spiral 1979 to 2016 (Ed Hawkins)
• Snow and Ice datasets (Science on a Sphere, NOAA)

Research projects:

RATES – Resolving Antarctic ice mass TrEndS (University of Bristol)
Operation IceBridge (NASA)
IMBIE – Ice sheet mass balance inter-comparison exercise (ESA/Nasa). Summarised here.
PROMICE – Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Danish Energy Agency)
GoLIVE – Global Land Ice Velocity Extraction from Landsat 8 (NSIDC)

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Hydrology

• EGU Hydrological Sciences Division
• Global Hydrology Resource Center
• Utrect University Global Hydrology website
• Estimates of Freshwater Discharge from Continents: Latitudinal and Seasonal Variations by Dai and Trenberth (2002). Published in Journal of Hydrometeorology 3, 660–687.

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Instruments and data

NCAR/UCAR Climate Data Centre

Altimetry

Radar Altimeter Database System
NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry
AVISO
ESA Sea Level Climate Change Initiative

GRACE

University of Texas
NASA JPL
University of Colorado

Graphics and visualisations:

University of Colorado GRACE data portal

CRYOSAT-2

ESA Earth Online

ENVISAT

ESA Earth Online

ICESAT

ICESAT – NASA
ICESAT2 – NASA

Argo buoys

Argo

Tide gauges

• Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
Global Sea Level Observing System

River gauges

• Global Runoff Data Centre

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Methods and software

Bayesian Hierarchical Model (BHM)

• Bayesian statistics for dummies (Kevin Boone)
• How Bayesian inference works (Brando Rohrer)
• Introduction to Bayesian data analysis – Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 (Rasmus Bååth)
• Multi-variate spatio-temporal modelling software (Andrew Zammit Mangion)
A data-driven approach for assessing ice-sheet mass balance in space and time by Zammit Mangion, Bamber, Schoen and Rougier (2015). Published in Annals of Glaciology, 56, 175-183.
Multivariate spatio-temporal modelling for assessing Antarctica’s present-day contribution to sea-level rise by Zammit Mangion, Rougier, Schoen, Lindgren and Bamber (2015). Published in Environmetrics, 26, 159-177.
Resolving the Antarctic contribution to sea-level rise: A hierarchical modelling framework by Zammit Mangion, Rougier, Bamber and Schoen (2014). Published in Environmetrics, 25, 245-264.

Similar approaches

Comparison of full and empirical Bayes approaches for inferring sea-level changes from tide-gauge data by Piecuch, Huybers and Tingley (2017). Forthcoming in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
Simultaneous estimation of global present-day water transport and glacial isostatic adjustment by Wu, Heflin, Schotman, Vermeersen, Dong, Gross, Ivins, Moore and Owen (2010). Published in Nature Geoscience 3, 642 – 646.

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Models

• ICE6G GIA model (Peltier)
Regional ElAstic Rebound calculator (REAR)
• WaterGAP global freshwater model

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