What are the rates, mechanisms, impacts, and geographic variability of sea level change?
—National Academies of Science, a 2015 report.
Significant sea level change by region can be traced back to uneven rates of ocean warming, the net transport of seawater in currents, regional tectonics, isostatic adjustments, shoreline subsidence, and regional gravitational anomalies. Understanding the nature of change behind global and regional variability on all scales, and projecting future changes in sea level, will continue to be an interdisciplinary challenge.
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Principal Investigators | Sea Level
Emeritus Professor of Oceanography
401.874.6182
jwking@uri.edu
Associate Professor of Oceanography
401.874.6676
bloose@uri.edu