sea level

NOC researcher awarded

Dr Elizabeth Kent being presented with the Adrian Gill Prize by Professor Joanna Haigh, President of the RMS

The Royal Meteorological Society (RMS) has presented Dr Elizabeth Kent with the prestigious Adrian Gill Prize at its Annual General Meeting in London this month.

Isle of Wight salt marsh reveals 300 years of sea level history

Collecting core samples from a salt marsh on the Newtown Estuary on the Isle of Wight (photo courtesy of Margot Saher)

A recent study has shown there is regional variation in sea-level change on the eastern and western North Atlantic and therefore no single site is representative of the ocean-wide trends.

New method for measuring sea level rise

Tide gauge at Gladstone Lock, Liverpool

Scientists have developed a new method for revealing how sea levels might rise around the world throughout the 21st century to address the controversial topic of whether the rate of sea level rise is currently increasing.

Study provides crucial new information about how the ice ages came about

Deployment of a sediment corer from RV Meteor

An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about.

What the past tells us about modern sea level rise

Sea level may reach 80 cm above the modern level by 2100

An international team of researchers report that sea level rise since the industrial revolution has been fast by natural standards and – at current rates – may reach 80 centimetres above the modern level by 2100 and 2.5 metres by 2200.

PSMSL 80th Anniversary Celebrations

PSMSL 80th anniversary celebrations

A National Oceanography Centre workshop to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) attracted nearly 120 people to the Victoria Gallery and Museum at Liverpool University.

New generation of climate models capable of simulating abrupt climate change

Sea ice

Scientists have, for the first time, demonstrated that climate models are able to simulate past abrupt changes in the Earth’s climate – giving more confidence in predictions of future global climate change.

Will sea level rise lead to more underwater landslides?

Graphic denoting continental slope failure. From Bryn et al. (2005)

Underwater landslides are potentially very damaging: they can generate tsunami waves and destroy expensive and crucial seabed infrastructure, such as pipelines and cables.

Global warming will bring more Atlantic hurricane storm surges

Hurricane Katrina (credit: NASA/SVS)

Extreme storm events of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina will occur more frequently because of climate change, according to a new study involving the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool.

When did modern rates of sea level rise start?

Extracting cores from a marsh in southern New Zealand (courtesy: Prof Gehrels)

Professor Philip Woodworth of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Liverpool and Professor Roland Gehrels of Plymouth University asked when sea level rise started to accelerate – and narrowed it down to a point in the early 1900s.

Global sea levels are rising.

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