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Global and regional sea level rise scenarios for the United States

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Abstract

The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task Force, jointly convened by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the National Ocean Council (NOC), began its work in August 2015. The Task Force has focused its efforts on three primary tasks: 1) updating scenarios of global mean sea level (GMSL) rise, 2) integrating the global scenarios with regional factors contributing to sea level change for the entire U.S. coastline, and 3) incorporating these regionally appropriate scenarios within coastal risk management tools and capabilities deployed by individual agencies in support of the needs of specific stakeholder groups and user communities. This technical report focuses on the first two of these tasks and reports on the production of gridded relative sea level (RSL, which includes both ocean-level change and vertical land motion) projections for the United States associated with an updated set of GMSL scenarios. In addition to supporting the longer-term Task Force effort, this new product will be an important input into the USGCRP Sustained Assessment process and upcoming Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) due in 2018. This report also serves as a keytechnical input into the in-progress USGCRP Climate Science Special Report (CSSR).

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Sweet, W., Kopp, R., Weaver, C., Obeysekera, J., Horton, R.M., Thieler, E.R., Zervas, C., 2017, Global and regional sea level rise scenarios for the United States, Report: viii, 55 p.; Appedixes A-D.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype Other Government Series
Title Global and regional sea level rise scenarios for the United States
Series number NOS CO-OPS 083
Year Published 2017
Language English
Contributing office(s) Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Description Report: viii, 55 p.; Appedixes A-D
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