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- Sea Level Rise Risk Assessment for DoD Coastal Installations.(Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program, 2009-07) Mickler, Robert A.; Welch, DavidGiven current controversy regarding observed sea level rise in the 20th century, it is not surprising that there is a wide range of predictions of sea level rise for the 21st century. Future sea level rise consists of contributions from continued warming of the ocean as well as melting of glaciers, small ice sheets and Greenland. Installation natural and cultural resources and operations managers would like a particular value of sea level rise to be associated with a specific probability of occurrence. It is important to note that the main cause of uncertainty prior to about 2050 is caused by the lack of agreement on the processes that cause ice sheet melt and associated dramatic increases in sea level rise. Because of the thermal inertia of the oceans, there is little difference in the various sea level rise projections before about 2050, after which different rates of warming due to different projections of future greenhouse concentrations result in large differences in sea level rise. We conducted risk assessments of natural, cultural, and operational resources at risk in five coastal DoD installations in North Carolina (Air Force Dare County Bombing Range, Marine Corps Air Station and Naval Aviation Depot Cherry Point, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, and Navy Harvey Point).
