US Coastal Sea Level Report: Acceleration Trends Significant
2025-05-11
William & Mary's Batten School and VIMS released their 2024 U.S. sea level "report cards," providing updated analyses of sea level trends and projections for 36 coastal communities. The report cards, encompassing 55 years of historical data, aid planning and adaptation by analyzing rates of sea level rise and acceleration at each locality and forecasting 2050 water levels. This year's report cards are consolidated in an interactive dashboard and add data from several new tide gauge stations. While most locations show continued acceleration of sea level rise, the West Coast remains relatively stable, and the Southeast is experiencing significant acceleration, potentially linked to Greenland ice sheet melt.
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