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Sea Level Change

July 16, 2019

An Interactive Guide to Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States. The general concepts and the data are based on NOAA Technical Report NOS CO-OPS 083, "Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for United States",  published in January 2017. 

The house with the USGS BeachCam is in the center of this image, taken Feb. 14, 2017 after a much smaller Noreaster.
The house with the USGS BeachCam is in the center of this image, taken Feb. 14, 2017 after a much smaller Noreaster. Visible in the foreground on the left are the remnants of the artificial dune (completely removed by the March 2018 storm), and on the right is the engineered protection put in place by private property owners.