Research project

Using Interglacials To Assess Future Sea_level Scenarios

Research groups:

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate
Status:

Not active

Project overview

Existing sea-level rise projections do not account for the longer-term changes in global land-based ice volume. Although this ice-sheet contribution to sea-level change develops over decades to centuries, its long-term impact is large and virtually irreversible. It therefore dominates the uncertainty in future sea-level projections.

The aims of this project were to:
Quantify sea-level variation during interglacial periods (warm periods in between global ice ages)
Quantify relationships between global ice volume and climatalogical control processes

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

We work all around the world to understand how Earth's climate system works naturally. We use this to predict the ways in which it will respond to human-driven change in the future.

Research outputs

Differences between the last two glacial maxima and implications for ice-sheet, δ18O, and sea-level reconstructions

Eelco J. Rohling, Fiona D. Hibbert, Felicity H. Williams, Katherine M. Grant, Gianluca Marino, Gavin L. Foster, Rick Hennekam, Gert J. De Lange, Andrew P. Roberts, Jimin Yu, Jody M. Webster & Yusuke Yokoyama, 2017, Quaternary Science Reviews, 176, 1-28

DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.009

Type: article

A new approach to projecting 21st century sea-level changes and extremes

Philip Goodwin, Ivan Haigh, Eelco Rohling & Aimee Slangen, 2017, Earth's Future, 5(2), 240-253

DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000508

Type: article

Eastern Mediterranean sea levels through the last interglacial from a coastal-marine sequence in northern Israel

2016, Quaternary Science Reviews, 145, 204-225

DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.06.001

Type: article

Coral indicators of past sea-level change: a global repository of U-series dated benchmarks

2016, Quaternary Science Reviews, 145, 1-56