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Interglacial and future sea level [1]

Sea levels during the last interglacial stage (about 125 kyr ago) are known to have been higher than today, and may serve as a partial analogue for anthropogenic warming scenarios. However, because local sea levels differ from global sea level, accurately reconstructing past global sea level requires an integrated analysis of globally distributed data sets. An extensive compilation of local sea level indicators and a statistical approach are now used to estimate global sea level during the last interglacial.

Publication Date: 
17/12/2009
Peter U. Clark [2], Peter Huybers [3]
Nature [4]
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Climate Change [5], Climate Science [6], Global Warming [7], Sea Level Rise [8], Greenland [9], Antarctica [10]
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