Sea Level Changes: Advances in Observation Techniques, Modeling, and Understanding of Causes and Impacts
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2026 | Viewed by 15
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainability and adaptation science; earth system science and modern global change; global to local sea level changes and modern climate change; earth observations; space geodesy and geodetic reference frames
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Future sea level rises pose a high risk to the rapidly increasing populations of many coastal locations. Unlike heat waves, droughts, storms, and river floods, which have severe impacts on local and regional scales, significant sea level rises will have impacts on a global scale. Rapid sea level rises caused by collapses of parts of the Greenland or Antarctic ice sheets could result in massive migration, catastrophic loss of production capabilities and coastal real estate, and unprecedented pollution of the ocean. Therefore, there is an urgent need for better assessments of the full range of plausible trajectories of sea level rises at local and regional scales to enable responsible risk governance. Forecasting decadal sea level changes at local and regional scales is an urgently needed service for those engaged in risk governance in coastal settlements and megacities. The Special Issue will consider advances in modelling to enable such forecasting. Scenario studies can help to establish the probability density function of future sea level rises from local to global scales, which is a crucial input for thorough risk assessments. Assessing the potential impacts of sea level changes on coastal areas is another central input for risk governance. This Special Issue calls for papers that discuss recent advances in understanding the driving causes of sea level changes, and that address the potential impacts of these changes on coastal areas in a risk governance context.
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Plag
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sea level rise
- climate change
- observations
- modeling
- risk governance
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