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SUBMITTER: Nerem RS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5834701 | biostudies-other | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180212 9
Using a 25-y time series of precision satellite altimeter data from TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3, we estimate the climate-change-driven acceleration of global mean sea level over the last 25 y to be 0.084 ± 0.025 mm/y<sup>2</sup> Coupled with the average climate-change-driven rate of sea level rise over these same 25 y of 2.9 mm/y, simple extrapolation of the quadratic implies global mean sea level could rise 65 ± 12 cm by 2100 compared with 2005, roughly in agreement with the I ...[more]