Sea-Level Change in Asia since the Last Glacial Maximum

Seventy years of sea level variations along the Zhejiang Coast of East China Sea with future projections

Sea level rise (SLR) critically impacts coastal safety. Analyzing 70 years of data from 10 stations along the Zhejiang coast, we find that in 2020, sea levels stood 40.3 cm above the national datum, with higher levels in estuaries than eastern islands. While the 70-year average rise rate is moderate at 0.25 cm/yr, it h...

High centennial-scale variability in an East Antarctic snow accumulation record spanning the last millennium

A record of Holocene relative sea-level changes on Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Understanding past relative sea level (RSL) is important for constraining the timing and magnitude of changes in the cryosphere, providing critical benchmarks for models used to project future sea-level change, and supplying a datum for constraining past vertical motion. Past sea-level records from Antarctica can hel...

Ancient oysters provide far-field sea-level constraints on ice melt timing and sources during the early–mid Holocene climate transition

Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) reconstructions from far-field regions constrain past ice volume and global mean sea-level change, yet records from the South China Sea remain debated, particularly regarding the existence of a mid-Holocene highstand. Here, we present a revised RSL history for the Pearl River Delta bas...

A Subsidence Legacy

Relative sea-level rise (RSLR) poses a major threat to low-lying deltas worldwide. In the Netherlands, global sea-level rise is amplified by local land subsidence. While human-induced subsidence (e.g., gas extraction and soft soil compaction due to water extraction) can be mitigated by changing land-use policies, natur...

Hidden Sea Level Effect on Mediterranean Outflow Proxies

Contourite activity in the Gulf of Cadiz (GoC) is dominated by the precession-driven, ~20 ka cyclicity of the Mediterranean circulation and Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW). Grain size distributions in contourites are strongly influenced by bottom current speed and are therefore widely used in the GoC to trace past MO...