Demonstrator of a web client allowing to analyse and visualize various scenarios of contributions to global Sea Level Rise (SLR), combining SLR components. This demonstrator is a work in progress developed within the scope of the ECLISEA project, based on the datasets provided by the Integrated Climate Data Center ICDC of the University of Hamburg

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Low- and high-end sea-level projections are provided on this page. Low-end projections are close to the minimum rise of sea levels that is expected by 2100 given an emission. They are useful to assess minimum adaptation needs. Conversely, high-end projections provide low-probability high-impact scenarios, particularly suited for decision-making contexts with low uncertainty tolerance.

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In the area of sea-level rise, recent research has focused on assessing either likely or high end future sea levels, but less attention has been given to “low-end” sea-level projections, exploring best-case potential sea-level changes and providing the basis for estimating minimum adaptation needs. Here, we provide global and regional probabilistic sea-level projections using conservative projections of glaciers and ice-sheets melting and a selection of models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) delivering moderate thermal expansion. Our low-end sea-level projections are higher than previously estimated because they rely on modeling outcomes only, and do not add any expert judgement, aiming essentially at delivering more realistic upper tails. While there are good reasons to believe that our projections are excessively optimistic, they can be used as low-end sea-level projections in order to inform users with low aversion to uncertainty. Our low-end sea-level projection exceeds 0.5 m along most inhabited coasts by 2100 for business as usual greenhouse gas emissions (RCP8.5), which is relevant for adaptation practitioners as long as efficient climate change mitigation policies are not implemented. This means that without efficient climate mitigation, an acceleration of sea-level rise can hardly be avoided during the 21st century.

More information on: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11071507

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High-end sea-level scenarios are useful to inform stakeholders with low-uncertainty tolerance such as managers of critical infrastructures like ports, coastal municipalities, chemical industries, or nuclear plants. Here, we provide two high-end scenarios; the high-end A which is less pessimistic, defined based on the upper limit of the RCP8.5 likely range, the high-end B follows a “worst-model” approach, that is, not necessarily the upper limit to sea-level rise, which may exceed current modeling outcomes. Projections of the different sea-level contributions used to construct the high-end B scenario rely on peer-reviewed recent modeling studies.

More information at: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/12/2607

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