Human-caused sea level rise drives 21st-century worldwide water level extremes
Daniel M. Gilford, Yucheng Lin, Kristina Dahl, Andrew Pershing, Robert E. Kopp, Benjamin Strauss · 2026
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Daniel Gilford and colleagues put a human fingerprint on flood days worldwide in this 2026 study. Sea level rise is raising coastal flood risk, but how much of that extra risk comes from human-caused climate change had never been counted site by site.
Using two estimation methods at 519 tide gauges, the team found the human share measurable at 97 percent of sites. Human-caused rise accounted for about 58 percent of the days when extreme water levels were passed between 2000 and 2018. On average, the count of such blame-carrying flood days has nearly tripled since the 1970s. The numbers are meant for local planning and loss claims.
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| CREATOR | Daniel M. Gilford, Yucheng Lin, Kristina Dahl, Andrew Pershing, Robert E. Kopp, Benjamin Strauss |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43301 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |