ACE CRC and sea-level rise

Helping Australia prepare for these possibilities depends on improving our ability to project and respond to future changes based on a better understanding of historical sea-level rise and the factors that contributed to it.

The ACE CRC has made significant headway into systematically documenting the rate of sealevel rise for much of the past century, enhancing scientists’ ability to plot regional sea-level rise into the future. The overall goal of the ACE CRC Sea-level Rise Program is to narrow uncertainty in projections of global and regional sea-level change, including the changing frequency of coastal flooding events, for selected cities and populated regions of the Australian coastline and Australia’s neighbours in the South Pacific. Key areas of research are:

• Improving estimates of the different factors that have contributed to sea-level rise in the past

• Significantly reducing the range of projections of sea-level rise in the future

• Forecasting changes in extreme events for strategic locations

Find out more about ACE CRC's sea-level rise resources.

Fine out more about sea-level rise on the ACE CRC/CSIRO collaborative information site.