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Changes in the volume of water and ice on land (namely glaciers and ice sheets) can increase or decrease the volume of water in the ocean (see the Glaciers indicator).

Temperature and sea level are linked for two main reasons: 2 Relative sea level also has not risen uniformly because of regional and local changes in land movement and long-term changes in coastal circulation patterns.Īs the temperature of the Earth changes, so does sea level.

While absolute sea level has increased steadily overall, particularly in recent decades, regional trends vary, and absolute sea level has decreased in some places.

At those sites, even though absolute sea level has risen, land elevation has risen more rapidly. Meanwhile, relative sea level fell at some locations in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. coastline between 19, particularly the Mid-Atlantic coast and parts of the Gulf coast, where some stations registered increases of more than 8 inches (see Figure 2). Relative sea level rose along much of the U.S.

Since 1993, however, average sea level has risen at a rate of 0.12 to 0.14 inches per year-roughly twice as fast as the long-term trend. After a period of approximately 2,000 years of little change (not shown here), global average sea level rose throughout the 20 th century, and the rate of change has accelerated in recent years. When averaged over all of the world’s oceans, absolute sea level has risen at an average rate of 0.06 inches per year from 1880 to 2013 (see Figure 1).