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Josh K. Willis (presented by Dan Cayan—thanks, Dan!) joshua.k.willis@jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory Why Californians should care about Antarctica and Greenland Rising Oceans
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What really causes global warming?
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Side of Quelccaya ice cap, Peru Annual layers Lonnie Thompson How do we know?
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2000 Years of Sea Level Sea Level Change in North Carolina
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Tide Gauge Observations Average Rate ~ 1.8 mm/year 0.8 mm/year 2.0 mm/year 3.2 mm/year [Church and White, 2006] ~ 8 inches (20 cm) = 16,000 cubic miles!!! (67,000 cubic km)
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Sea Level at San Francisco, CA Trend ~ 12 inches/160 years Years Relative Sea Level, mm Recent Sea Level Rise = 33% Warming/67% Melting
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The altimeter record
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Sea Level Rise from Satellites
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Globally Averaged Sea Level Rise CauseEffect Satellite Altimeters Measure Sea Level Rise
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Why so much uncertainty? How much/how fast? Greenland and Antarctic melting Projections of Future Rise Which path are we on? Jason-3 & Continuity
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Surfers Point, Ventura, CA
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Projections of Dynamic Height Yin, GRL, 2012
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Projections of Dynamic Height
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