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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

Bipolar seesaw control on last interglacial sea level
G. Marino,
E.J. Rohling,
L. Rodríguez-Sanz,
K.M. Grant,
D. Heslop,
A.P. Roberts,
J.D. Stanford,
& J. Yu
, 2015 , Nature , 522 (7555) , 197--201
DOI: 10.1038/nature14499
Type: article
Ocean impact on decadal Atlantic climate variability revealed by sea-level observations
Gerard D. McCarthy,
Ivan D. Haigh,
Joël J.-M. Hirschi,
Jeremy P. Grist,
& David A. Smeed
, 2015 , Nature , 521 (7553) , 508--510
DOI: 10.1038/nature14491
Type: article
Deep South Atlantic carbonate chemistry and increased interocean deep water exchange during last deglaciation
Jimin Yu,
Robert F. Anderson,
Zhangdong Jin,
Laurie Menviel,
Fei Zhang,
Fredrick J. Ryerson,
& Eelco J. Rohling
, 2014 , Quaternary Science Reviews , 90 , 80--89
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.02.018
Type: article
Sea-level variability over five glacial cycles
K.M. Grant,
E.J. Rohling,
C. Bronk Ramsey,
H. Cheng,
R.L. Edwards,
F. Florindo,
D. Heslop,
F. Marra,
A.P. Roberts,
M.E. Tamisiea,
& F. Williams
, 2014 , Nature Communications , 5
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6076
Type: article
Mean sea level variability in the North Sea: Processes and implications
Sönke Dangendorf,
Francisco M. Calafat,
Arne Arns,
Thomas Wahl,
Ivan D. Haigh,
& Jürgen Jensen
, 2014 , Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans , 119 (10) , 6821--6841
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC009901
Type: article