NASA has created an online sea level projection tool that makes extensive data on future sea level rise from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Just click anywhere in the ocean and global shores and choose any decade between 2020 and 2150: the tool, hosted on NASA’s Sea Level Portal , will deliver a detailed location report based on projections in the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC.
Different possible scenarios
The IPCC sea level projections are based on data collected by satellites and instruments on the ground, as well as computer simulations and analysis.
The tool can show possible future sea levels under various greenhouse gas emissions and socioeconomic scenarios. As Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer , program scientist and NASA manager, who leads NASA’s Sea Level Change Science Team, explains :
What’s new here is a tool that we are providing to the community, to distribute the latest climate knowledge produced by scientists at the IPCC and NASA in an accessible and user-friendly way while maintaining scientific integrity.