Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
Description
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.