{"id":18524,"date":"2023-09-18T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=18524"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:37:01","slug":"vital-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/vital-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vital Signs: Sea Level Rise Rapidly Accelerates Along the Southeast and Gulf Coasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Sea levels along the Southeast and Gulf coasts have been rapidly rising, reaching record-breaking rates over the past 12 years, according to a new study led by scientists at Tulane University. The research team detected rates of sea-level rise of about a half an inch per year since 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese rapid rates are unprecedented over at least the 20th-century, and they have been three times higher than the global average over the same period,\u201d says S\u00f6nke Dangendorf, lead author, from the Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering at Tulane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The authors studied a combination of field and satellite measurements since 1900, pinpointing the individual contributors to the acceleration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n