sea level

Professor Philip Woodworth of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Liverpool and Professor Roland Gehrels of Plymouth University asked when sea level rise started to accelerate – and narrowed it down to a point in the early 1900s.

Global sea levels are rising.

Geologists will tell you that, in terms of the Earth’s history, this is no new…

A new experiment is under way that will help forecast the shape of the Dutch coastline under changing climate conditions, involving scientists and engineers from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).

The “STRAINS” (STRAtification Impacts on Nearshore Sediment) experiment is an international study, designed to understand how the presence of the…

Microscopic ocean algae called coccolithophores are providing clues about the impact of climate change both now and many millions of years ago. The study found that their response to environmental change varies between species, in terms of how quickly they grow.

Coccolithophores, a type of plankton, are not only widespread in the modern ocean but…

To understand the risk of coastal flooding, you need to understand the tides. This was a key message of a study by researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool and Southampton, which was short-listed for the recent Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize.

Projected increases in global mean sea level, caused by melting of land ice and…

Are there more tropical cyclones now than in the past – or are we just hearing more about them through media, and detecting them more successfully with satellites?

That is the question addressed in new research from Denmark’s Niels Bohr Institute, which demonstrates an increasing tendency for cyclones to occur when the climate is warmer, as it has…

UK oceanographers have thought of a novel way to measure the global ocean – weigh it. In research published this week, scientists from the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool and Newcastle University have proposed an idea that will assess the mass of the world ocean by weighing at a single point.

The National Oceanography Centre’s Prof…

A new study reports that the disintegration of the Maya Civilisation may have been related to relatively modest reductions in rainfall.

The study was led by Professors Martín Medina-Elizalde of the Yucatan Center for Scientific Research in Mexico and Eelco Rohling of the University of Southampton in the UK. Professor Rohling says “Our results show…

Sea levels around the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic have risen since the mid nineteenth century and the rate of sea-level rise has accelerated over recent decades, according to newly published research. The findings are as expected under global warming and consistent with observations elsewhere around the globe.

“We have been fortunate in…

Scientific findings by international research group of scientists from England, China and Denmark just published suggest that sea level will likely be 30–70 centimetres higher by 2100 than at the start of the century.

This is even if all but the most aggressive geo-engineering schemes are undertaken to mitigate the effects of global warming and…