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Trend And Acceleration: A Multi-Model Approach To Key West Sea Level Rise, John Tenenholtz
Trend And Acceleration: A Multi-Model Approach To Key West Sea Level Rise, John Tenenholtz
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Sea level rise (SLR) varies depending on location. It is therefore important to local residents, businesses and government to analyze SLR locally. Further, because of increasing ice melt and other effects of climate change, rates of SLR may change. It is therefore also important to evaluate rates of change of SLR, which we call sea level acceleration (SLA) or deceleration.
The present thesis will review the annual average sea level data compiled at the Key West tidal gauge in Key West, Florida. We use a multi-model approach that compares the results of various models on that data set. The goal …