Browse maps modeling sea level rise and its impacts to people and infrastructure under various climate scenarios.
The U.S. coastline will see the highest sea level rise in the next 30 years, according to a recent U.S. government report. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and six other federal agencies say that sea levels will increase up to 30 centimeters (12 inches) highe...
this dieback serves as a precursory warning to mangroves in low-lying islands globally, by offering insights into the impacts of future sea level rise.
NASA scientists say the satellites that helped them track past patterns of sea level change will also help forecast future patterns. NASA scientists predict sea levels will rise over the next 10 years on the US west coast even as they fall on China’s east coast. Josh Willis on the rising ...
Coastal land can be lost at rapid rates due to relative sea-level rise (RSLR) resulting from local land subsidence. However, the comparative severity of local land subsidence is unknown due to high spatial variabilities and difficulties reconciling observations across localities. Here we provide sel...
Coastal flooding will increase significantly over the next 30 years because of sea level rise, according to the report by an interagency sea level rise task force that includes NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other federal agencies. ...
Tuvalu, whose mean elevation is just 2 m (6.56 ft), has experienced a sea-level rise of 15 cm (5.91 inches) over the past three decades, one-and-a-half times the global average. By 2050, NASA scientists project that daily tides will submerge half of the main atoll of Funafuti, home...
"Sea level rise is one of the most visible signatures of our changing climate, and rising seas have profound impacts on our nation, our economy and all of humanity," Michael Freilich, director of NASA's Earth Science Division at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., said at the...
Rising Waters and Coastal Floods: Living with Sea Level Rise in NYC, Part 1/2 Posted onMay 24, 2011bySeaAndSkyNY [This is the first of a pair of guest blog posts from Dr. Vivien Gornitz, a geologist and special research scientist with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and ...
Coastal communities across the world are already feeling the disastrous impacts of climate change through variations in extreme sea levels1. These variations reflect the combined effect of sea-level rise and changes in storm surge activity. Understanding