Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Internal climate variability and projected future regional steric and dynamic sea level rise

  • Aixue Hu,
  • Susan C. Bates

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03474-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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As the global climate becomes warmer, the associated rising sea level could pose significant threats to island and coastal communities. Here the authors show that internal climate variability plays a key role in determining this sea level rise, especially in the next few decades.