SO&P: Data for Deliverable 13
Regional estimates of observed and proxy sea level rise

The following observational/reconstructed sea level data sets have been assembled and/or developed for use within the SO&P project, and together they represent deliverable 13 of the project (see deliverables list).

• Reconstructed proxy-based sea level for the North Atlantic region
  
  
  • These data are not yet available for open use, which is why they are password-protected for restricted access. They represent the culmination of new fieldwork and a critical survey of published and other unpublished data, as described in the SO&P final report (see SO&P publications for reports). Refer to that report for full details. Six records were considered appropriate for comparison with the model simulations:
    • North Carolina (Wright et al., unpublished).
    • Connecticut (Donnelly et al., 2004).
    • Connecticut (Wright et al., unpublished).
    • Nova Scotia (Gehrels et al., 2005).
    • Maine (Gehrels, 1999, 2000; Gehrels et al., 2002).
    • Iceland (Gehrels et al., 2006).
    
    
  • These data represent relative sea level changes only -- i.e., long-term trends due to glacio-isostatic adjustments and other sources of local vertical land movement have not been removed.
    
    
  • Five of these reconstructions are represented in the figure below.
    
    
    
    
  • The data and plot are available as an EXCEL spreadsheet.
  
  
  
• Tide-gauge observations of sea level
  
  
  • These are readily accessible from the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level.