OS21B:
Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding I

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Session ID#: 35173

Session Description:
Although sea level rise is a global phenomenon, the impacts are local, and are happening now. Changes in sea level are impacting communities across the globe on an almost daily basis through increased erosion and subsidence, greater saltwater intrusion, more frequent “nuisance” flooding, and higher storm surge. Planning for, adapting to, and mitigating current and future sea level has begun out of necessity in many threatened areas. This session discusses the information that is needed for such efforts, and identifies areas where improvements still need to be made. In particular, this session invites contributions on understanding and projecting regional sea level rise and variability, accounting for and identifying changes in extreme events, and assessing the role of land motion in future coastal flooding. Other studies related to understanding, quantifying and projecting sea level rise on local and regional levels are also encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Benjamin Hamlington, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, United States
Conveners:  Philip R Thompson, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, United States, Emily A. Smith, NOAA Washington DC, OAR, Washington, DC, United States and Felix W Landerer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Benjamin Hamlington, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, United States, Emily A. Smith, NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Felix W Landerer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Philip R Thompson, CIMAR, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Benjamin Hamlington, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • G - Geodesy
Index Terms:

1222 Ocean monitoring with geodetic techniques [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4556 Sea level: variations and mean [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Sea-Level Allowances along the World Coastlines (211512)
Roderik van de Wal, Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Christos Tsitsikas, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Thomas Reerink, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Aimee Slangen, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Yerseke, Netherlands, Renske de Winter, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, Sanne Muis, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and John Robert Hunter, Univ Tasmania, West Hobart, TAS, Australia
Modeling extreme sea levels due to tropical and extra-tropical cyclones at the global-scale (Invited) (252033)
Sanne Muis1, Ning Lin2, Martin Verlaan3,4, Hessel Winsemius4, Philip Ward1 and Jeroen Aerts1, (1)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States, (3)Delft University of Technology, Mathematical Physics, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands
Relative Sea Level, Tidal Range, and Extreme Water Levels in Boston Harbor from 1825 to 2016 (229890)
Stefan A Talke, California Polytechnic State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, San Luis Obispo, California, United States, Andrew Kemp, Tufts University, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Medford, United States and Jonathan D Woodruff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
Analyzing extreme sea levels for broad-scale impact and adaptation studies (Invited) (223912)
Thomas Wahl1, Ivan David Haigh2, Robert J J Nicholls3, Arne Arns4, Sönke Dangendorf4, Jochen Hinkel5 and Aimee Slangen6, (1)University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, FL, United States, (2)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (3)University of East Anglia, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich, United Kingdom, (4)University of Siegen, Research Institute for Water and Environment, Siegen, Germany, (5)Global Climate Forum, Berlin, Germany, (6)NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Yerseke, Netherlands
Global projections of extreme sea levels in view of climate change (290325)
Michalis Ioannis Vousdoukas1, Luc Feyen2, Evangelos Voukouvalas1, Lorenzo Mentaschi1, Martin Verlaan3, Svetlana Jevrejeva4 and Luke P Jackson5, (1)European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra Vey, Italy, (2)European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, (3)Delft University of Technology, Mathematical Physics, Delft, Netherlands, (4)NOC, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (5)National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Spatial variability of coastal wetland resilience to sea-level rise using Bayesian inference (300814)
Tyler Hardy and Wei Wu, University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Coastal Sciences, Ocean Springs, MS, United States
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar to capture spatial variability of local land-based subsidence (245815)
David P Bekaert1, Benjamin Hamlington1 and Cathleen E Jones2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

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