Projections for global mean sea level rise and its contributions

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Topics: Climate change adaptation ,

Projections for global mean sea level rise and its contributions in 2081–2100 relative to 1986–2005 from process-based models for the four representative concentration pathways (RCPs) and emisions scenario SRES A1B used in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. The grey boxes show the median of the model projections (central bar) as well as the likely range, which comprises two thirds of the model projections. The coloured bars and boxes show estimates for the different contributions to global sea-level rise. For further information, see the source document.

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07 Apr 2014

Temporal coverage:

2081-2100

Tags:

greenland ice sheet , climate change , antartic ice sheet , sea level , coast , glaciers

Geographic coverage:

Earth

Methodology:

See:

http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_Chapter13_FINAL.pdf

Units:

Global mean sea level rise (m)

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Owners:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Processors:

European Environment Agency (EEA)

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Graph

Additional information

Source: Figure 13.10 in:
Church, J.A., P.U. Clark, A. Cazenave, J.M. Gregory, S. Jevrejeva, A. Levermann, M.A. Merrifield, G.A. Milne, R.S. Nerem, P.D. Nunn, A.J. Payne, W.T. Pfeffer, D. Stammer and A.S. Unnikrishnan, 2013: Sea Level Change. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
Available at: http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_Chapter13_FINAL.pdf