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| Keywords: Sea level rise projections for the 21st century.png sea level rise projections for the 21st century relative to the year 2000 Data are taken from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC AR4 Synthesis Report 2007 US National Research Council US NRC 2012 and Martin Vermeer and Rahmstorf 2009 The IPCC 2007 estimates do not include all of the possible contributions from ice sheets US NRC 2012 pp 84-85 According to US NRC 2012 p 88 the IPCC 2007 projections are likely underestimates because they do not account fully for cryospheric processes Projections for IPCC 2007 are given for the year 2100 only Projections Projections are given below in centimetres cm Abbreviations N US NRC 2012 E Vermeer and Rahmstorf 2009 and I IPCC 2007 For N the first number is the projection followed by the estimated error Then follows the low- and high-range estimates For E the first number is the projection followed by the low- and high-range estimates For I the first number is the low-range estimate followed by the high-range estimate IPCC AR4 SYR 2007 state Because understanding of some important effects driving sea level rise is too limited this report does not assess the likelihood nor provide a best estimate or an upper bound for sea level rise Year 2030 N 13 5 ± 1 8 8 3-23 2 E 18 14-22 Year 2050 N 28 ± 3 2 17 6-48 2 E 37 28-47 Year 2100 N 82 7 ± 10 6 50 4-140 2 E 121 78-175 I 18-59 US NRC 2012 explain how these projections were made References Citation 2007 IPCC AR4 SYR 3 Projected climate change and its impacts in Summary for Policymakers Climate Change 2007 Synthesis Report SYR Contribution of Working Groups I II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report AR4 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Core Writing Team; Pachauri R K; and Reisinger A IPCC Geneva Switzerland http //www ipcc ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/spms3 html 92-9169-122-4 National Academies Press Washington D C USA 978-0-309-25594-3 p 89 S Rahmstorf 22 December 2009 Global sea level linked to global temperature Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America http //www pnas org/content/106/51/21527 full 10 1073/pnas 0907765106 106 51 21 527-21 532 issue 51 own Enescot 2013-03-16 Sea level statistics Global warming graphs Cc-zero | ||||
