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Monthly mean sea level at New York City (with the annual signal removed). The NOAA tide station data begin in 1856. The long-term mean sea level trend is 0.111 inches per year or 0.93 feet per century.
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Pleasant Bay is a 9,000-acre estuary located in the Towns of Orleans, Chatham, Harwich and Brewster, Massachusetts. Due to its unique and extensive environmental values, the Bay and its surrounding shoreline and connected wetlands were designated by the Commonwealth as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC). The four towns that share the...
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... NOAA tide record for Boston (Figure 1), which extends back almost 100 years, indicates a sea level rise trend of 2.8 mm per year (equivalent to about 1 foot per century). A similar rate of rise is shown by the even longer record for New York City (Figure 2). However, these recent rates represent a decided departure from regional sea level change rates in the past. ...
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... 13 illustrates the modeled tide ranges for the three simulations. While the tidal range (the difference between high tide and low tide) for 2004 and 2070 is similar, both being single inlets systems, the increased high tide (and low tide) elevation is due to the increase in sea level ( Figure 12). As shown in Figure 13, the tide range with the multiple inlet system (2007) is between 1.2 and 1.6 feet greater than with the single inlet system in 2004 and 2070, respectively. ...
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