A team of researchers led by Griffith University has mapped out how much waves are likely to change around the globe under climate change and found that if we can limit warming to 2 degrees, signals of wave climate change are likely to stay within the range of natural climate variability.
A team of researchers led by Griffith University has mapped out how much waves are likely to change around the globe under climate change and found that if we can limit warming to 2 degrees, signals of wave climate change are likely to stay within the range of natural climate variability.
However, if we don’t limit warming and continue with business as usual around 48 per cent of the world’s coast is at risk of wave climate change, with changes in either wave height, period or direction.
The southern coasts of Australia are one of the areas predicted to be at risk of increasing wave heights is we don’t limit climate change to 2 degrees.
Published in Nature Climate Change, researchers from Griffith’s Cities Research Institute and Griffith Centre for Coastal Management conducted a comprehensive assessment of existing, community-driven, multi-method global wave climate projections.
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