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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

Assessing “dangerous climate change”: required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature
Juan A. Añel,
James Hansen,
Pushker Kharecha,
Makiko Sato,
Valerie Masson-Delmotte,
Frank Ackerman,
David J. Beerling,
Paul J. Hearty,
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg,
Shi-Ling Hsu,
Camille Parmesan,
Johan Rockstrom,
Eelco J. Rohling,
Jeffrey Sachs,
Pete Smith,
Konrad Steffen,
Lise Van Susteren,
Karina von Schuckmann,
& James C. Zachos
, 2013 , PLoS ONE , 8 (12) , 1--26
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081648
Type: article
A geological perspective on potential future sea-level rise
Eelco J. Rohling,
Ivan D. Haigh,
Gavin L. Foster,
Andrew P. Roberts,
& Katharine M. Grant
, 2013 , Scientific Reports , 3 (3461) , 1--7
DOI: 10.1038/srep03461
Type: article
Relationship between sea level and climate forcing by CO2 on geological timescales
G.L. Foster,
& E.J. Rohling
, 2013 , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 110 (4) , 1209--1214
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216073110
Type: article
Collapse of classic Maya civilization related to modest reduction in precipitation
M. Medina-Elizalde,
& E.J. Rohling
, 2012 , Science , 335 (6071) , 956--959
DOI: 10.1126/science.1216629
Type: article
Rapid coupling between ice volume and polar temperature over the past 150,000 years
K.M. Grant,
E.J. Rohling,
M. Bar-Matthews,
A. Ayalon,
M. Medina-Elizalde,
C. Bronk Ramsey,
C. Satow,
& A.P. Roberts
, 2012 , Nature , 491 , 744--747
DOI: 10.1038/nature11593
Type: article