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Physical Climate Forces 25Table 2-2: Global Sea-level Rise ScenariosScenarioSea-level Rise by 2100 (meters)Highest 2.0Intermediate-High 1.2Intermediate-Low 0.5Lowest 0.2Source: Parris et. al., 2012semi-empirical approaches. Semi-empirical projections utilize statistical relationshipsbetween observed sea level change, including recent ice sheet loss, and air temperature.Our Intermediate-Low Scenario is based on the upper end (95% confidence interval) ofIPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) global SLR projections resulting from climatemodels using the B1 emissions scenarios. The Intermediate-High Scenario allows expertsand decision makers to assess risk from ice sheet loss, but to a limited extent. TheIntermediate Low Scenario allows experts and decision makers to assess risk primarilyfrom ocean warming.Figure 2-7 Global mean sea-level rise scenarios developed for the 2013. Present Mean Sea Level(MSL) for the U.S. coasts is determined from the National Tidal Datum Epoch (NTDE) provided byNOAA. The NTDE is calculated using tide gage observations from 1983 – 2001. Therefore, we use1992, the mid-point of the NTDE, as a starting point.
26 Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and VulnerabilitiesThe Lowest Scenario is based on a linear extrapolation of the historical sea-level riserate derived from tide gauge records beginning in 1900 (1.7 millimeters/year). The LowestScenario also coincides with the lower end (95% confidence interval) of the IPCC AR4global sea-level rise projection derived from climate model simulations using the B1emissions scenario. The rate of global mean sea-level rise derived from satellite altimetry(1992 to 2010) has been substantially higher (3.2 millimeters/year), approaching twicethe rate of the longer historical record from tide gauges. The 18-year altimeter recordis insufficient in duration for projecting century-scale global sea-level rise. Trends derivedfrom the shorter records are less reliable as projections because they are affectedby decadal and interannual climate and oceanographic patterns that are superimposedupon the long-term change of global sea level (Sallenger, 2012). The Lowest Scenarioshould only be considered where there is a great tolerance for risk.Observations of global mean sea-level rise and increasing global mean temperaturedemonstrate highly significant correlation (Rahmstorf et al., 2011; Vermeer & Rahmstorf,2009), and the IPCC (2007a) and more recent studies (Schaeffer et al., 2012) anticipatethat global mean sea level will continue to rise even if warming declines. OurIntermediate-Low and Lowest Scenarios are optimistic scenarios of future environmentalchange assuming limited ice sheet loss and historical rates of ocean warming (i.e.,thermal expansion).Ice Sheet LossOther studies (Rohling et al., 2008) have arrived at even greater estimates of global meansea-level rise than the Highest Scenario, but we are less confident in the plausibilityof those estimates in this century; however, we do recognize the plausibility of greaterthan 2 meter rise particularly beyond 2100. The IPCC AR4 produced some of the morewidely used projections of global sea-level rise for the 21st century (IPCC, 2007a). TheIPCC projections included thermal expansion, contributions from glaciers, and modeledpartial ice sheet contributions among other factors; however, the IPCC AR4 estimatesdid not include potential rapid dynamic response of Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheetsas reflected in our Highest Scenario.A growing body of recently published work suggests that, due to increasing loss,the great polar ice sheets in Greenland will become much more significant contributorsto global sea-level rise in the future (NRC, 2012; Rignot et al., 2011; Van den Broeke etal., 2011; Vermeer & Rahmstorf, 2009). Ice sheet contributions to global mean sea-levelrise stem from mass loss brought about by melting and discharge of ice into the oceanat marine-terminating glaciers and ice streams (NRC, 2012). Multiple reports indicatethat mass loss of both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets may have accelerated overthe past two decades despite high interannual variability in space and time (Chen et al.,2011; NRC, 2012; Rignot et al., 2011; Van den Broeke, 2011). Regional variability of massloss for the Greenland ice sheet over the past few years shows that areas of acceleratingdeterioration changed from the southeast part of the ice sheet to the northwest part, suggestinghigh sensitivity of the Greenland ice sheet to regional climate (Chen et al., 2011).In Antarctica, ice loss is occurring in some coastal areas, and ice accumulation is occurringin interior Antarctica. While the balance between ice loss and accumulation remainsan area of investigation, recent observations suggest that ice loss has been greater.
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