Research project

Using Interglacials To Assess Future Sea_level Scenarios

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

Research outputs

2014, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119(10), 6821-6841
Type: article
2014, Nature Communications, 5
Type: article
E.J. Rohling, G.L. Foster, K.M. Grant, G. Marino, A.P. Roberts, M.E. Tamisiea & F. Williams, 2014, Nature, 508(7497), 477-482
Type: article
Eelco J. Rohling, Ivan D. Haigh, Gavin L. Foster, Andrew P. Roberts & Katharine M. Grant, 2013, Scientific Reports, 3(3461), 1-7
Type: article