Global and regional sea level rise scenarios for the United States / William V. Sweet [and six others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Sweet, William (William VanderVeer), author.

Contributor:

NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products & Services, issuing body.

Series:

NOAA technical report NOS CO-OPS ; 83.

NOAA technical report NOS CO-OPS ; 083

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sea level--United States--Forecasting.

Sea level.

Coast changes--United States--Forecasting.

Coast changes.

Coastal zone management--United States.

Coastal zone management.

Coast changes--Forecasting.

Sea level--Forecasting.

United States.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 56, [9] pages) : color illustrations, color maps.

Place of Publication:

Silver Spring, Md. : U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, 2017.

Summary:

"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 key technical input into the in-progress USGCRP Climate Science Special Report (CSSR)"--Executive summary. [Accompanied by the CSV data sheet] [doi:10.7289/V5/TR-NOS-COOPS-083 (https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/TR-NOS-COOPS-083)].

Contents:

Appendix A. Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task Force

Appendix B. Climate-related RSL change for 2100 (in meters) corresponding to the low (17th) and high (83rd) percentile values (Table 5) relative to the GMSL rise amount for that scenario (as in Figure 9), respectively

Appendix C. Total RSL change for 2100 (in meters) corresponding low and high percentile values (Table 5) relative to the GMSL rise amount for that scenario (as in Figure 13), respectively

Appendix D. CMIP5 models used.

Notes:

"January 2017."

"Convening organizations: The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the National Ocean Council (NOC) at the request of the White House Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience. Participating agencies: DoD, EPA, FEMA, NASA, NOAA, USACE, USGS"--Appendix A.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-54).

Online resource, PDF version; title from title screen (viewed on May 22, 2017).

OCLC:

987617984

Publisher Number:

doi:10.7289/V5/TR-NOS-COOPS-083