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Pacific Sea Levels Rising Very Slowly and Not Accelerating

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  • Parker Albert

    (Independent Scientist, Bundoora Australia)

  • Ollier Clifford

    (School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia)

Abstract

Over the past decades, detailed surveys of the Pacific Ocean atoll islands show no sign of drowning because of accelerated sea-level rise. Data reveal that no atoll lost land area, 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, and only 11.4% of islands contracted. The Pacific Atolls are not being inundated because the sea level is rising much less than was thought. The average relative rate of rise and acceleration of the 29 long-term-trend (LTT) tide gauges of Japan, Oceania and West Coast of North America, are both negative, −0.02139 mm yr−1 and −0.00007 mm yr−2 respectively. Since the start of the 1900s, the sea levels of the Pacific Ocean have been remarkably stable.

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  • Parker Albert & Ollier Clifford, 2019. "Pacific Sea Levels Rising Very Slowly and Not Accelerating," Quaestiones Geographicae, Sciendo, vol. 38(1), pages 179-184, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:quageo:v:38:y:2019:i:1:p:179-184:n:7
    DOI: 10.2478/quageo-2019-0007
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    1. Albert Parker, 2013. "Oscillations of sea level rise along the Atlantic coast of North America north of Cape Hatteras," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 65(1), pages 991-997, January.
    2. Albert Parker, 2013. "Sea level trends at locations of the United States with more than 100 years of recording," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 65(1), pages 1011-1021, January.
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