Human-driven sea-level rise has quadrupled the frequency of coastal sea-level extremes since 1900 (opens in new tab)  🇬🇧English Learning  Content type: Academic  4 articles covering this post

Coastal flooding events are escalating worldwide, yet the role of human-driven sea-level rise remains poorly constrained. Here we provide a global detection and attribution of changes in extreme sea-level frequency since 1900, combining tide-gauge records with historical and single-forcing experiments from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5. We show that relative sea-level rise, driven primarily by anthropogenic radiative forcing since the 1960s, has already transformed the lik...