<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>We show here the presence of significant “<italic>coldspot</italic>” of sea level rise along the West Coast of the United States and Canada (including Alaska). The 30-years sea level for the area are mostly falling also at subsiding locations as San Francisco and Seattle where subsidence is responsible for a long term positive rate of rise. The 20 long term tide gauges of the area of length exceeding the 60-years length have a naïve average rate of rise −0.729 mm/year in the update 30-Apr-2015, down from −0.624 mm/year in the update 14-Feb-2014. Therefore, along the West Coast of the United States and Canada the sea levels are on average falling, and becoming more and more negative.</p></abstract>

We show here the presence of significant “coldspot” of sea level rise along the West Coast of the United States and Canada (including Alaska). The 30-years sea level for the area are mostly falling also at subsiding locations as San Francisco and Seattle where subsidence is responsible for a long term positive rate of rise. The 20 long term tide gauges of the area of length exceeding the 60-years length have a naïve average rate of rise −0.729 mm/year in the update 30-Apr-2015, down from −0.624 mm/year in the update 14-Feb-2014. Therefore, along the West Coast of the United States and Canada the sea levels are on average falling, and becoming more and more negative.

Coldspot of Decelerated Sea-Level Rise on the Pacific Coast of North America

School of Engineerig and Physical Science, James Cook University, Townsville,

Quaestiones Geographicae

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We show here the presence of significant “coldspot” of sea level rise along the West Coast of the United States and Canada (including Alaska). The 30-years sea...

Coldspot of Decelerated Sea-Level Rise on the Pacific Coast of North America

Published Online: Oct 18, 2016

Page range: 31 - 37

Received: Feb 09, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2016-0024

Keywords
sea level, measurements, tide gauges, West Coast of North America

© 2016 Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Coldspot of Decelerated Sea-Level Rise on the Pacific Coast of North America

Published Online: Oct 18, 2016

Page range: 31 - 37

Received: Feb 09, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2016-0024

Keywordssea level, measurements, tide gauges, West Coast of North America

© 2016 Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
sea level, measurements, tide gauges, West Coast of North America