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Infrastructure and Flooding
www.johnenglander.net PNWER 2016 - CALGARY
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Types of Flooding
• Sea Level Rise
• Rainfall & Runoff
• Coastal Storm Flooding
• Extreme Tides
• Land Subsidence / Uplift
• Other
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Calgary 2013
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Seattle 2012
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2013 IPCC Projections:
up to 32 in. / 92 cm
of sea level rise
this century
#’s do not include the
“wild card” amplifiers:
• Methane
• West Antarctic glaciers
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@johnenglander
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© 2006 John Englander
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Greenland =
24 feet of SLR
Antarctica =
186 feet of SLR
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Source: K. Steffen
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© 2006 John Englander
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“Meltwater Pulse 2b” on Youtube
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Sea level rise varies greatly by location.
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Sea
Level
20,000 Years Ago
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Sea level change over the last 400,000 years, 4
“ice age” cycles, shows a clear pattern
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Global sea level is rising primarily because land ice
is melting and ocean water is expanding as it warms
• 1.7 mm per year over 20th century (from tide gages)
• 3.1 mm per year since 1993 (from satellite altimetry)
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