Devastating floods due to Atlantic hurricanes are relatively rare events. However, the frequency of the most intense storms is likely to increase with rises in sea surface temperatures. Geoengineering …
Dec 12, 2015
Take away message: The graph on the right shows that AR5 process based ice sheet projections are optimistic and over confident when compared to views of ice sheet experts. To be fair they do mention a …
Oct 8, 2015
Here is an illustration which may help to interpret changes in return period/return magnitude plots.
Sep 30, 2015
I recommend using inkscape if you want to digitize a vector figure from a pdf file. Here’s how you do that.
Sep 30, 2015
Jens Morten Hansen (JMH) and co-authors have recently published a study where they use sine-regression to fit 5 oscillations plus a linear trend to a 160-year sea level record from waters near Denmark …
Sep 25, 2015
Three recent papers on long term sea level commitment:
Aug 26, 2015
Sea level rise poses a significant threat to coastal communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems. Sea level rise is not uniform globally but is affected by a range of regional factors. In this paper, …
Aug 25, 2015
Global warming is causing sea levels to rise, primarily due to loss of land-based ice masses and thermal (steric) expansion of the world oceans. Sea level does not rise in a globally uniform manner, …
Jul 29, 2015
We use 1277 tide gauge records since 1807 to provide an improved global sea level reconstruction and analyse the evolution of sea level trend and acceleration. In particular we use new data from the …
Jul 2, 2015
In the austral summer 2006/07 i was part of an ~100 day expedition to Scharffenbergbotnen, Heimefrontfjella, Antarctica with FINNARP. There we collected a ~2.5km long horizontal ice core. We kept a …
Jun 24, 2015
Bamber and Aspinall 2013 published a formal expert elicitation on the future of our two ice sheets, and found a large spread between individual expert answers. It has been argued by them, and others …
May 27, 2015
Bamber and Aspinall (2013) carried out an expert elicitation of ice sheet experts. From this they could derive uncertainty ranges of the rate of mass loss from each ice sheet in 2100. In order to …
May 6, 2015