Evidence of accelerating sea level rise at the Dutch coast

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Global mean sea-level rise (SLR) has been accelerating since the 1960s, reaching rates of more than 3 mm/year during the last three decades. Along individual coastlines, however, detection of an acceleration in SLR is challenging, because the long-term signal is obscured by a large natural variability. Our analysis of 100-year-long tide gauge observations along the Dutch coast shows that, since the early 1990s, sea level rise has accelerated from 1.7±0.3 mm/year to 2.7±0.4 mm/year. Similar changes have occurred in the past, but only the most recent ones can be detected with high confidence.
Period9 May 2022
Event titlePint of Science 2022
Event typeOther
LocationDen Haag, NetherlandsShow on map