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England's South Coast Threatened By Rising Sea Levels

by Tanya on October 13, 2009 at 9:01 AM Environmental Health

University of Southampton researchers have found evidence of rising sea levels across the south coast of England over the past century. This can substantially increase the risk of flooding during storms.

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The team has conducted a major data collection exercise, bringing together computer and paper-based records from across the south of England, from the Scilly Isles to Sheerness, to form a single data set of south coast sea levels across the years.

Their work has added collectively about 150 years worth of historic data to the existing record of English Channel sea-level change and extended the data along the south coast.

The data shows that both average sea levels and extreme sea levels have been rising at a similar rate through the 20th Century.

The rate of rise is in the range 1.2 to 2.2 mm per year, with 1.3 mm per year recorded at Southampton.

According to coastal engineering expert Professor Robert Nicholls, of the University's School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, who conducted the study, "While these changes seem small, over a century they accumulate and substantially increase the risk of flooding during storms, unless there have been corresponding upgrades to flood defences."

"A water level that had an average likelihood of occurring once every 100 years in 1900 now has an average likelihood of occurring on average every 10 to 25 years, depending on the site considered. As sea levels continue to rise and probably accelerate, this increase in the likelihood of flooding will continue," he added.

The most significant extension to the records is that of sea level changes at Southampton where the record now begins in 1935.

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