| Title | Climate drivers - sea level |
| Author | James, T |
| Source | AMAP, 2018. Adaptation actions for a changing Arctic: perspectives from the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait region; by Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme; 2018 p. 62-67 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Alt Series | Earth Sciences Sector, Contribution Series 20150100 |
| Publisher | Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) |
| Document | book |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Northern offshore region; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Yukon; Manitoba; Ontario; Quebec; British Columbia; Alberta; Saskatchewan; Manitoba; Ontario; Quebec; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; Prince Edward
Island; Newfoundland and Labrador; Northwest Territories; Yukon; Nunavut |
| NTS | 14; 15; 16; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 34; 35; 36; 37; 38; 39; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48; 49; 54; 55; 56; 57; 58; 59; 64; 65; 66; 67; 68; 69; 74; 75; 76; 77; 78; 79; 84; 85; 86; 87; 88; 89; 94; 95; 96; 97; 98; 99;
104; 105; 106; 107; 114; 115; 116; 117; 120; 340; 560 |
| Area | Arctic; Davis Strait; Baffin Bay; Canada; Greenland; Denmark; Iceland; Norway; Sweden |
| Lat/Long WENS | -141.0000 20.0000 90.0000 56.0000 |
| Subjects | environmental geology; sea level changes; climate; crustal uplift; ice; climate change |
| Illustrations | geoscientific sketch maps; time series |
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| Program | Coastal Infrastructure, Climate Change Geoscience |
| Links | Online - En ligne (complete volume - volume complet, PDF, 44.4 MB)
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| Abstract | Relative sea level in the BBDS region is projected to fall at nearly all locations, despite projected global sea level rise. Th e BBDS pattern is mainly due to crustal uplift in response to past and
projected ice mass decreases. For the high-emissions scenario, the projected median relative sea-level change (at 2100, relative to 1986-2005) ranges over the region from a fall of nearly 90 cm to a rise of nearly 10 cm. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This is a section on observed and projected sea-level in the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait Region, based on a previously published GSC Open File. Even through
global sea-level is projected to rise, sea level is generally projected to fall in the region because of large amounts of vertical crustal motion measured at some locations and owing to proximity to the Greenland ice sheet at other
locations. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 296656 |
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