sea level rise

• sea level rise

  increase in the level of the worlds oceans due to the effects of global warming
• two types of sea level rise

  relative and obsolute
• relative sea levels

  how the height relates to the height of land in a particular location
• absolute sea level

  the height of the surface of the ocean as measured from the center of the earth not relative to land movement.
• causes of sea level rise

  increase in volume of the ocean, subsidence of the coast