PALeo constraints on SEA level rise (PALSEA): ice-sheet and sea-level responses to past climate warming

The primary aim of this special issue as part of the PALeo constraints on SEA level rise 2 (PALSEA2) Past Global Changes (PAGES) working group and international focus group of the Coastal and Marine Processes commission in International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) is to use the information contained in the geological record to improve the accuracy of sea-level projections for the coming centuries to millennia. The focus is on documenting and synthesizing data on rates, sources, and budgets of sea-level variability during Quaternary/Pliocene warm periods, including the transition into and out of such periods, and assess the ability of models to simulate these observations.

Published papers

> Introduction: PALeo constraints on SEA level rise (PALSEA): Ice-sheet and sea-level responses to past climate warming

> Mid- to late Pliocene (3.3–2.6 Ma) global sea-level fluctuations recorded on a continental shelf transect, Whanganui Basin, New Zealand

> Refining the Laurentide Ice Sheet at Marine Isotope Stage 3: A data-based approach combining glacial isostatic simulations with a dynamic ice model

> Rapid Laurentide ice-sheet advance towards southern last glacial maximum limit during marine isotope stage 3

> Balancing the last glacial maximum (LGM) sea-level budget

> Glacial isostatic adjustment along the Pacific coast of central North America

> Quantifying variable rates of postglacial relative sea level fall from a cluster of 24 isolation basins in southern Norway

> Holocene sea-level history of the northern coast of South China Sea

> Holocene Indian Ocean sea level, Antarctic melting history and past Tsunami deposits inferred using sea level reconstructions from the Sri Lankan, Southeastern Indian and Maldivian coasts

> Relative sea-level change during the Last Interglacial as recorded in Bahamian fossil reefs

> Late Holocene relative sea levels near Palmer Station, northern Antarctic Peninsula, strongly controlled by late Holocene ice-mass changes

> Late Holocene sea-level changes in eastern Québec and potential drivers