Talk:Sea level rise
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Review by Job Dronkers
The sea level is highly variable over periods ranging from seconds to decades. Sea-level rise is the rising trend averaged over longer periods, which is observed at many coastal stations since a few centuries. Global warming due to human emissions of greenhouse gases is thought to be responsible for strengthening this trend over at least the last decades. Absolute sea-level rise is the rise of sea level independent from local vertical motion of the land surface. Relative sea-level rise is the locally observed rise of sea level with respect to the land level. It is equal to the sum of the local absolute sea-level rise and the local vertical motion of the land surface.
