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Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1585-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1585-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
Research article
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02 Aug 2023
Research article |  | 02 Aug 2023

Missing sea level rise in southeastern Greenland during and since the Little Ice Age

Sarah A. Woodroffe, Leanne M. Wake, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Natasha L. M. Barlow, Antony J. Long, and Kurt H. Kjær

Data sets

Diatom data from "Missing sea-level rise in southeast Greenland during and since the Little Ice Age", published in Climate of the Past, 2023 Sarah Woodroffe, Leanne Wake, Kristian Kjellerup Kjeldsen, Natasha Barlow, Antony J. Long, and Kurt Henrik Kjær https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23762385.v2

Model code and software

Missing sea-level rise in southeast Greenland during and since the Little Ice Age Sarah A. Woodroffe, Leanne M. Wake, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Natasha L. M. Barlow, Antony J. Long, and Kurt H. Kjaer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8154596

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Short summary
Salt marsh in SE Greenland records sea level changes over the past 300 years in sediments and microfossils. The pattern is rising sea level until ~ 1880 CE and sea level fall since. This disagrees with modelled sea level, which overpredicts sea level fall by at least 0.5 m. This is the same even when reducing the overall amount of Greenland ice sheet melt and allowing for more time. Fitting the model to the data leaves ~ 3 mm yr−1 of unexplained sea level rise in SE Greenland since ~ 1880 CE.
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