Population Health
October 25, 2018
New report projects sea-level changes for Washington State
A new climate change report led by Washington Sea Grant and the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group details ocean level projections for more than 150 different sites along the Washington coastline.
The report incorporates geology-driven land motion and provides the latest, probabilistic estimates to let planners weigh the risks of different scenarios, which allows planners to decide how they want to respond to, for instance, a water level with a 1 percent chance of occurring by a given year.
The projections include an embedded Google map where anyone who is involved with planning projects along the coast can download estimates for their location.