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Using Interglacials To Assess Future Sea_level Scenarios

Project overview

Existing sea-level rise projections do not account for the longer-term changes in global land-based ice volume. Although this ice-sheet contribution to sea-level change develops over decades to centuries, its long-term impact is large and virtually irreversible. It therefore dominates the uncertainty in future sea-level projections.

The aims of this project were to:
Quantify sea-level variation during interglacial periods (warm periods in between global ice ages)
Quantify relationships between global ice volume and climatalogical control processes

Staff

Other researchers

Professor Ivan Haigh

Professor

Research interests

  • I have four main areas of research, as follows:
  • Mean Sea level: local, regional and global trends, detection of accelerations, understanding of inter-annual variability
  • Extreme sea levels and coastal Flooding: Changes in storm surges, extreme value analysis, compound events,

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

We work all around the world to understand how Earth's climate system works naturally. We use this to predict the ways in which it will respond to human-driven change in the future.

Research outputs

A new approach to projecting 21st century sea-level changes and extremes
Philip Goodwin,
Ivan Haigh,
Eelco Rohling,
& Aimee Slangen
, 2017 , Earth's Future , 5 (2) , 240--253
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000508
Type: article
Differences between the last two glacial maxima and implications for ice-sheet, δ18O, and sea-level reconstructions
Eelco J. Rohling,
Fiona D. Hibbert,
Felicity H. Williams,
Katherine M. Grant,
Gianluca Marino,
Gavin L. Foster,
Rick Hennekam,
Gert J. De Lange,
Andrew P. Roberts,
Jimin Yu,
Jody M. Webster,
& Yusuke Yokoyama
, 2017 , Quaternary Science Reviews , 176 , 1--28
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.009
Type: article
Nonlinear sea-level trends and long-term variability on western European coasts
Tal Ezer,
Ivan D. Haigh,
& Phillip L. Woodworth
, 2016 , Journal of Coastal Research , 32 (4) , 744--755
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-15-00165.1
Type: article
Coral indicators of past sea-level change: a global repository of U-series dated benchmarks
Fiona D. Hibbert,
Eelco J. Rohling,
Andrea Dutton,
Felicity H. Williams,
Peter M. Chutcharavan,
Cheng Zhao,
& Mark E. Tamisiea
, 2016 , Quaternary Science Reviews , 145 , 1--56
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.04.019
Type: article
Eastern Mediterranean sea levels through the last interglacial from a coastal-marine sequence in northern Israel
D. Sivan,
G. Sisma-Ventura,
N. Greenbaum,
O.M. Bialik,
F.H. Williams,
M.E. Tamisiea,
E.J. Rohling,
A. Frumkin,
S. Avnaim-Katav,
G. Shtienberg,
& M. Stein
, 2016 , Quaternary Science Reviews , 145 , 204--225
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.06.001
Type: article
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