ARSET - Sea Level Change Tools for Planning and Decision Support
Start Date:
June 10, 2025
End Date:
June 17, 2025
Description:
This two-part introductory training series will focus on NASA products and tools available to assess historical sea-level rise, access and understand projections of sea level, and investigate impacts. Participants will be exposed to the causes behind regional and global sea-level changes and explore climate and analysis tools to access, visualize, and perform statistical analysis using NASA data.
Targeted Audience:
Primary: Local, state, federal, and international entities, including public and private sector organizations, wanting to integrate NASA Earth observations and IPCC projections of sea-level change, as well as impacts, for considerations into their climate change work in different sectors; as well as any practitioners of sea-level observations or projections.
Secondary: Academics and researchers interested in NASA observations and IPCC projections of sea-level change, as well as impacts.
Expected Outcomes:
By the end of this training attendees will be able to:
1. Identify underlying Earth processes contributing to relative sea-level change at global and regional scales.
2. Recognize remote sensing and modeled data used for assessing sea level change on a regional to global scale.
3. Describe how coastal communities and infrastructure can be impacted by flooding caused by sea level change.
4. Demonstrate how to assess the processes contributing to past and future sea-level change with the Sea Level Explorer tool–at global and regional scales.
5. Demonstrate how to access future projections of relative sea-level change under different emissions scenarios with the IPCC AR6 Projection Tool.
6. Visualize oceanic and groundwater flooding maps with the Pacific Islands Flooding Tool.
