FloodVision™
FloodVision™ uses advanced data collection techniques, AI-based algorithms, and intuitive software to produce highly accurate augmented-reality photos of specific locations.
Sea Level Rise
Climate Central’s Program on Sea Level Rise strives to provide accurate, clear and granular information about sea level rise and coastal flood hazards both locally and globally, today and tomorrow.
Anchored in rigorous primary research, our work distinguishes itself by its user-friendly maps and tools, extensive datasets, and high-quality visual presentation. The program dedicates its efforts to helping citizens, communities, businesses, organizations, and governments at every level to understand the consequences of different carbon pathways and to navigate the shifting waters of our warming world.
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Nature Communications
New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding (October 2019
By 2050 sea level rise will push average annual coastal floods higher than land now home to 300 million people.
Environmental Research Communications
Resilience of U.S. coastal wetlands to accelerating sea level rise (June 2022)
Coastal wetlands provide a wide array of ecosystem services, valued at trillions of dollars per year globally. Although accelerating sea level rise (SLR) poses the long-term threat of inundation to coastal areas, wetlands may be sustained in two ways: by positive net surface-elevation change (SEC) from sediment and organic matter buildup and by accumulation, or horizontal migration into refugia—low-lying, undeveloped upland areas that become inundated.
Environmental Research Letters
Unprecedented Threats to Cities from Multi-century Sea Level Rise (October 2021)
Using state-of-the-art new global elevation and population data, we show here that, under high emissions scenarios leading to 4○C warming and a median projected 8.9 m of global mean sea level rise within a roughly 200- to 2000-year envelope, 50 major cities, mostly in Asia, would need to defend against globally unprecedented levels of exposure, if feasible, or face partial to near-total extant area losses.
Nature Communications
Economic Damages from Hurricane Sandy Attributable to Sea Level Rise Caused by Anthropogenic Climate Change (May 2021)
Using historical and alternative sea level reconstructions, plus flood simulations to determine how much climate change contributed to damage inflicted by the 2012 storm, this study found that sea level rise caused by carbon emissions accounted for approximately 13% ($8.1 billion) of the $62.7 billion in losses incurred by New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from Hurricane Sandy.
Nature Climate Change
Meeting the looming policy challenge of sea-level change and human migration (December 2019)
Minimizing the adverse consequences of sea-level change presents a key societal challenge. New modelling is necessary to examine the implications of global policy decisions that determine future greenhouse gas emissions and local policies around coastal risk that influence where and how we live.
Nature Communications
New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding (October 2019
By 2050 sea level rise will push average annual coastal floods higher than land now home to 300 million people.
Environmental Research Communications
Resilience of U.S. coastal wetlands to accelerating sea level rise (June 2022)
Coastal wetlands provide a wide array of ecosystem services, valued at trillions of dollars per year globally. Although accelerating sea level rise (SLR) poses the long-term threat of inundation to coastal areas, wetlands may be sustained in two ways: by positive net surface-elevation change (SEC) from sediment and organic matter buildup and by accumulation, or horizontal migration into refugia—low-lying, undeveloped upland areas that become inundated.
Environmental Research Letters
Unprecedented Threats to Cities from Multi-century Sea Level Rise (October 2021)
Using state-of-the-art new global elevation and population data, we show here that, under high emissions scenarios leading to 4○C warming and a median projected 8.9 m of global mean sea level rise within a roughly 200- to 2000-year envelope, 50 major cities, mostly in Asia, would need to defend against globally unprecedented levels of exposure, if feasible, or face partial to near-total extant area losses.
Nature Communications
Economic Damages from Hurricane Sandy Attributable to Sea Level Rise Caused by Anthropogenic Climate Change (May 2021)
Using historical and alternative sea level reconstructions, plus flood simulations to determine how much climate change contributed to damage inflicted by the 2012 storm, this study found that sea level rise caused by carbon emissions accounted for approximately 13% ($8.1 billion) of the $62.7 billion in losses incurred by New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from Hurricane Sandy.
Nature Climate Change
Meeting the looming policy challenge of sea-level change and human migration (December 2019)
Minimizing the adverse consequences of sea-level change presents a key societal challenge. New modelling is necessary to examine the implications of global policy decisions that determine future greenhouse gas emissions and local policies around coastal risk that influence where and how we live.
Nature Communications
New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding (October 2019
By 2050 sea level rise will push average annual coastal floods higher than land now home to 300 million people.
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