Sea level rise and the implications for coastal flooding

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• Ivan Haigh, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
• Friday 09 November 2018, 11:00-12:00
• British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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Sea-level rise is one of the most certain and costliest impacts of climate change. The Paris Agreement committed signatories to ‘Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change’. However, while reducing human emissions of greenhouse gases will stabilise temperature and other climate factors, sea-level rise will continue for many centuries. This is due to the long timescale of cryospheric adjustment to elevated air temperatures (especially the large ice sheets), and the long timescale of the deep ocean temperature warming to surface warming. In this presentation I will describe a novel approach we have developed to project sea-level rise out to 2300 to accurately assess our ‘commitment to sea-level rise’. I will then go on to describe how sea level rise will impact coastal flooding globally, and then around the UK.

This talk is part of the British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series series.

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