Coupling instrumental and geological records of sea‐level change: Evidence from southern New England of an increase in the rate of sea‐level rise in the late 19th century

Donnelly, Jeffrey P.; Cleary, Peter; Newby, Paige E.; Ettinger, R.

doi:10.1029/2003gl018933

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“…salt-marsh) data (for example Donnelly et al 2004;Gehrels et al 2006). These data mostly indicate an acceleration at the end of the nineteenth or start of the twentieth century (see Woodworth et al 2011, this volume, for a summary and references).…”

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Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century

Church¹,

White²

2011

The Earth's Cryosphere and Sea Level Change

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We estimate the rise in global average sea level from satellite altimeter data for 1993-2009 and from coastal and island sea-level measurements from 1880 to 2009 . For 1993-2009 and after correcting for glacial isostatic adjustment, the estimated rate of rise is 3.2 ± 0.4 mm year -1 from the satellite data and 2.8 ± 0.8 mm year -1 from the in situ data. The global average sea-level rise from 1880 to 2009 is about 210 mm. The linear trend from 1900 to 2009 is 1.7 ± 0.2 mm year -1 and since 1961 is 1.9 ± 0.4 mm year -1 . There is considerable variability in the rate of rise during the twentieth century but there has been a statistically significant acceleration since 1880 and 1900 of 0.009 ± 0.003 mm year -2 and 0.009 ± 0.004 mm year -2 , respectively. Since the start of the altimeter record in 1993, global average sea level rose at a rate near the upper end of the sea level projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Third and Fourth Assessment Reports. However, the reconstruction indicates there was little net change in sea level from 1990 to 1993, most likely as a result of the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.

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Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century

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2011

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“…Similarly encouraging results have been obtained for other North American salt marshes. For example, Donnelly et al (2004) suggested a rapid acceleration in the latter part of the 19th century using data from a marsh in eastern Connecticut. However, on inspection of their time series, one concludes that a timing during the early part of the 20th century would be appropriate.…”

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Evidence for the accelerations of sea level on multi‐decade and century timescales

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Jevrejeva

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Intl Journal of Climatology

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ABSTRACT:A modification in the rate of change of sea level (i.e. an 'acceleration' or 'nonlinear trend') is an important climate-related signal, which requires confirmation and explanation. In this study, the evidence for accelerations in regional and global average sea level on timescales of several decades and longer is reviewed by inter-comparison of the recent findings of different researchers and by inspection of original tide gauge records. Most sea-level data originate from Europe and North America, and both the sets display evidence for a positive acceleration, or 'inflexion', around 1920-1930 and a negative one around 1960. These inflexions are the main contributors to reported accelerations since the late 19th century, and to decelerations during the mid-to late 20th century. However, these characteristic features are not always found in records from other parts of the world. Although some aspects of the sea-level time series are consistent with changes in rates of globally averaged temperature changes, volcanic eruptions and natural climate variability, modelling undertaken so far has been unable to describe these features adequately. This emphasizes the need for a major enhancement of the sea-level data set, especially for those parts of the world without long tide gauge records, in order to obtain greater insight into the spatial dependence of accelerations. A number of complementary methods must be employed, of which salt marsh techniques offer the possibility of obtaining time series similar to those that would have been obtained from coastal tide gauges.

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“…Use of basal salt-marsh samples that directly overlie an incompressible substrate avoids the influence of compaction (Jelgersma, 1961;Donnelly et al, 2004), but compilations of discrete basal RSL reconstructions typically lack the chronological and vertical precision required to identify sub-millennial trends (see Engelhart and Horton, 2012). Therefore, late Holocene RSL reconstructions rely on samples from a single core of salt-marsh sediment (e.g.…”

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Quantifying the Contribution of Sediment Compaction to late Holocene Salt-Marsh Sea-Level Reconstructions, North Carolina, USA

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'Quantifying the contribution of sediment compaction to late Holocene salt-marsh sea-level reconstructions, North Carolina, USA.', Quaternary research., 83 (1). pp. 41-51. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres. 2014.08.003 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Quaternary Research. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in Quaternary Research, 83/1, 2015Research, 83/1, , 10.1016Research, 83/1, /j.yqres.2014 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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Coupling instrumental and geological records of sea‐level change: Evidence from southern New England of an increase in the rate of sea‐level rise in the late 19th century

Cited by 169 publications

References 19 publications

Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century

Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century

Evidence for the accelerations of sea level on multi‐decade and century timescales

Quantifying the Contribution of Sediment Compaction to late Holocene Salt-Marsh Sea-Level Reconstructions, North Carolina, USA

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