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Climate Change and Sea Level editor's pick

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/dgesl/research/other/climate_change_and_sea_level/sea_level_rise/sea_level_rise.htm

mapping of areas susceptible to sea level rise solely based on elevation and adjacency to the sea for regions around the globe
Added: Dec. 26, 2007 | Rate It

Sea Level Report editor's pick

http://www.sealevelreport.com/

a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report that finds that mid-Atlantic coastal states will experience a dramatic increase in storm surge flooding and coastal erosion because of climate change
Added: Jan. 23, 2009 | Rate It

Global Roundtable on Climate Change popular

http://www.grocc.ei.columbia.edu/

4 out of 10 stars (5 votes)

a stakeholder forum of leaders from industry, governments and NGOs, set up to discuss and explore areas of potential consensus regarding core scientific, technological, and economic issues critical to shaping sound public policies on climate change
Added: Mar. 08, 2007 | Rate It

National Snow and Ice Data Center popular

http://www.nsidc.org/

6 out of 10 stars (4 votes)

an information and referral center supporting polar and cryospheric research; distributes data about snow cover, glaciers, ice sheets, paleoglaciology, and ice cores - at the University of Colorado
Added: May. 23, 2001 | Rate It

Ocean Surface Topography from Space popular

http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/

uses spaceborne radar altimeter to measure ocean topography including measuring sea level rise
Added: Dec. 07, 2004 | Rate It

Sea Level Rise Reports popular

http://epa.gov/climatechange/effects/coastal/slrreports.html

5 out of 10 stars (6 votes)

reports from EPA's Sea Level Rise Project, whose mission since 1982 has been to accelerate the process by which people in the coastal zone prepare for the possible adverse effects of rising sea level
Added: May. 05, 2004 | Rate It

Climate Change - Health and Environmental Effects

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/coastal/sap4-1.html

an EPA report, Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region, that discusses the impacts of sea-level rise on the physical characteristics of the coast, on coastal communities, and the habitats that depend on them
Added: Jan. 23, 2009 | Rate It

Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Palmer Land Area, Antarctica: 1947—2009

http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i-2600-c/

a site from the USGS that provides an opportunity to download a series of maps that show changes in a portion of the Antarctic ice sheet over a 30-year time span
Added: Mar. 04, 2010 | Rate It

Global Flood Map

http://globalfloodmap.org/

interactive map showing effects of various incremental rises of sea level for cities around the world; included number of homes that would be lost and the number of people losing those homes
Added: Sep. 24, 2009 | Rate It

Global Glacier Changes - Facts and Figures

http://www.grid.unep.ch/glaciers/

a report by UNEP that aims to provide an illustrated global view of the available data sets related to glaciers and ice caps, their distribution around the globe, and the changes that have occurred since the maximum extents of the so-called Little Ice Age (LIA)
Added: Feb. 03, 2009 | Rate It

Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership

http://www.mccip.org.uk/

seeks to provide a co-ordinating framework within the UK for the transfer of high-quality marine climate change impacts evidence and advice to policy advisors and decision-makers
Added: Dec. 03, 2006 | Rate It

National Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/cvi/

this U.S.G.S. project seeks to objectively determine the relative risks due to future sea-level rise from climate change for the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico coasts
Added: Sep. 24, 2007 | Rate It

North Carolina Sea Level Rise Science Forum

http://dcm2.enr.state.nc.us/slr/presentations.html

the Coastal Management Division of North Carolina's Department of Environmentand Natural Resources provides links to pdf copies of presentations relating to sea level rise and its effects on the NC coastal areas
Added: Feb. 04, 2010 | Rate It

Ocean Acidification Network, The

http://www.ocean-acidification.net/

provides a central source of information for ocean scientists on research activities in the ocean's dropping pH and ways to minimize the effects of such changes
Added: Feb. 03, 2009 | Rate It

Pacific Island Mangroves in a Changing Climate and Rising Seas

http://www.unep.org/PDF/mangrove-report.pdf

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report from UNEP that examines major challenges in the Pacific Islands region in adjusting, with limited resources, to the responses of coastal ecosystems to climate-change-induced rise of sea levels (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

State of the Canadian Cryosphere

http://www.socc.ca/

disseminates accurate and up-to-date information on current state of the cryosphere in Canada
Added: May. 24, 2001 | Rate It

Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary: Global Warming and the Third World

http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

an electronic information service covering global warming, climate change, sea-level rise and related issues; with particular reference to the situation in the developing world
Added: May. 22, 2001 | Rate It

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