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Re: Extreme Pacific Sea Level Events To Double In Future

From gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com>
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Subject Re: Extreme Pacific Sea Level Events To Double In Future
Date 2015-09-29 22:14 -0500
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On 9/29/2015 8:30 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:



Science Fiction.






>> Abstract
>>
>> Global mean sea levels are projected to gradually rise in response to
>> greenhouse warming. However, on shorter time scales, modes of natural
>> climate variability in the Pacific, such as the El Niño–Southern
>> Oscillation (ENSO), can affect regional sea level variability and
>> extremes, with considerable impacts on coastal ecosystems and island
>> nations. How these shorter-term sea level fluctuations will change in
>> association with a projected increase in extreme El Niño and its
>> atmospheric variability remains unknown. Using present-generation
>> coupled climate models forced with increasing greenhouse gas
>> concentrations and subtracting the effect of global mean sea level
>> rise, we find that climate change will enhance El Niño–related sea
>> level extremes, especially in the tropical southwestern Pacific,
>> where very low sea level events, locally known as Taimasa, are
>> projected to double in occurrence. Additionally, and throughout the
>> tropical Pacific, prolonged interannual sea level inundations are
>> also found to become more likely with greenhouse warming and
>> increased frequency of extreme La Niña events, thus exacerbating the
>> coastal impacts of the projected global mean sea level rise.
>>
>> Citation
>>
>> Future extreme sea level seesaws in the tropical Pacific by Matthew
>> J. Widlansky, Axel Timmermann and Wenju Cai published in Science
>> Advances, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500560
>>
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Extreme Pacific Sea Level Events To Double In Future Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 20:30 -0500
  Re: Extreme Pacific Sea Level Events To Double In Future gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-09-29 22:14 -0500
  Re: Extreme Pacific Sea Level Events To Double In Future benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 00:20 -0400
  Re: Extreme Pacific Sea Level Events To Double In Future jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-30 05:05 +0000

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