“Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era” (2018), by R. S. Nerem et al. Earth and Planetary Sciences research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. No free PDF was found.

Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era

R. S. Nerem, B. D. Beckley, John Fasullo et al. · February 12, 2018 · Earth and Planetary Sciences

Abstract

Significance Satellite altimetry has shown that global mean sea level has been rising at a rate of ∼3 ± 0.4 mm/y since 1993. Using the altimeter record coupled with careful consideration of interannual and decadal variability as well as potential instrument errors, we show that this rate is accelerating at 0.084 ± 0.025 mm/y 2 , which agrees well with climate model projections. If sea level continues to change at this rate and acceleration, sea-level rise by 2100 (∼65 cm) will be more than double the amount if the rate was constant at 3 mm/y.

Source page DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1717312115