OS43B:
Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts and Flooding I


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Session ID#: 57595

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.  This session will have contributions from understanding and projecting regional coastal sea level changes, accounting for and identifying changes in extreme events, and assessing the role of land motion in future coastal flooding. In addition studies that show changes and their relation to open ocean processes and the ability to forecast them under climate change conditions.

This fist session will focus on the drivers behind sea level change.

Primary Convener:  Emily A. Smith, NOAA Washington DC, OAR, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Detlef Stammer, Universität Hamburg, Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany, Philip R Thompson, CIMAR, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, United States and Kathleen D White, US Army Corps of Engineers,, Institute for Water Resources, Washington, DC, United States; US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Emily A. Smith, NOAA Washington DC, OAR, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Detlef Stammer, Universität Hamburg, Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany and Emily A. Smith, NOAA OAR, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Philip R Thompson, CIMAR, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • C - Cryosphere
  • G - Geodesy
  • G - Geodesy
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1225 Global change from geodesy [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4556 Sea level: variations and mean [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Stable Gulf Stream in the Past Two Decades (460585)
Lequan Chi1, Christopher Wolfe2 and Sultan Hameed1, (1)Stony Brook University, SoMAS, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (2)Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Accelerated sea level changes along the United States East Coast during 2010-2015 (465512)
Ricardo M. Domingues1, Gustavo Jorge Goni2, Molly O'Neil Baringer2 and Denis Volkov3, (1)University of Miami, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Miami, FL, United States, (2)NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Miami, Miami, FL, United States
River-discharge effects on United States Atlantic and Gulf coast sea-level changes (347911)
Andrew Kemp, Tufts University, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Medford, United States, Christopher G Piecuch, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, Klaus Bittermann, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States, Rui M Ponte, Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, United States, Christopher M Little, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Lexington, United States, Simon E Engelhart, University of Rhode Island, Department of Geosciences, Narragansett, RI, United States and Steven J Lentz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, United States
On Two Types of Impacts of Hurricanes on Coastal Sea Level and Flooding: Direct Storm Surges Versus Remote Influence Through Disruption of the Gulf Stream Flow (351110)
Tal Ezer, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
Downscaling Regional Sea Level Change Projections in the North Atlantic (390011)
Armin Koehl1, Frank Siegismund1 and Detlef Stammer2, (1)University of Hamburg, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Universität Hamburg, Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany
Uncovering Long-term Regional Trends in the Satellite Altimeter Record (442801)
Benjamin Hamlington, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, John Fasullo, NCAR, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States and R Steven Nerem, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Improved elevation data more than doubles estimates of global coastal vulnerability to sea level rise (420259)
Scott Andrew Kulp and Benjamin Strauss, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
A hybrid reconstruction of 20th century regional and global sea level change (433387)
Sönke Dangendorf, University of Siegen, Research Institute for Water and Environment, Siegen, Germany, Carling Hay, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Francisco M Calafat, NOCS, Southampton, United Kingdom and Marta Marcos, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain

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