Presenters: Lauren Lewright (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Margie Turrin (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)

The NSF funded Greenland Rising Project has been a collaboration between Greenland science and community partners and U.S. researchers focused on refining the understanding of changing sea level around Greenland. The project takes a systems view of the impacts on the natural, social and built environment in three coastal communities in western Greenland. Throughout the project local community members assisted in both identifying locations of interest for bathymetric mapping and in the data collection.

The critical deliverable was an improved understanding of local sea level in participating communities. Quantifying future sea level around Greenland required the development of data-informed models and projections that incorporated mantle viscosity and glacial isostatic adjustment to calculate changes in the land surface, and a reduction in gravitational attraction to determine sea surface drop. For each of the three communities, projections of sea level change were delivered for 2050 and 2100 in two different emissions scenarios.

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