An estimate of increases in storm surge risk to property from sea level rise in the first half of the twenty-first century

• Main Authors: Hoffman, Ross N., Dailey, Peter., Hopsch, Susanna., Ponte, Rui M., Quinn, Katherine., Hill, Emma M., Zachry, Brian.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95050; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8225
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Sea level is rising as the World Ocean warms and ice caps and glaciers melt. Published estimates based on data from satellite altimeters, beginning in late 1992, suggest that the global mean sea level has been rising on the order of 3 mm yr−1. Local processes, including ocean currents and land motio...