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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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