List of Reports

List of the reports on this site that are either not on other sites or for which other sites lack the complete bibliographical reference

Rolling Easements. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA‑430‑R‑11‑001 (2011). (pdf) (introduction only)
State and Local Governments Plan for Development of Most Land Vulnerable to Rising Sea Level along the U.S. Atlantic Coast - Environmental Research Letters (2009)
The Bush Administration's final word about rising level: Coastal Sensitivity to Sea Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region - U.S. Climate Change Science Program (2009). Online excerpts, entire report (PDF, 320 pp, 10 MB)
The Likelihood of Shore Protection Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States: Volume 1, Mid-Atlantic - U.S. EPA (2010).

The Likelihood of Shore Protection Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States: Volume 2, New England and South Atlantic, U.S. EPA (2010).

EPA's published Bush-era sea level rise study: Background Documents Supporting Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.1: Coastal Elevations and Sensitivity to Sea Level Rise - U.S. EPA, EPA-430-R-07-004 (2008).

Maps of Lands Close to Sea Level along the Mid-Atlantic Coast: An Elevation Dataset to use while waiting for LIDAR (abstract) (PDF) (44 pp., 2,150 KB) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Interpolating Elevations (abstract) (PDF) (23 pp., 820 KB) by R. Jones and J. Wang – Methods used to quantify the area of land close to sea level.
Uncertainty Ranges (abstract) (PDF) (66 pp., 962 KB) by J. G. Titus and D. Cacela – Uncertainty ranges for estimates of the amount of land close to sea level.

Maps that Depict the Business As Usual Response to Sea level rise in the Decentralized United States of America Originally published by Organisation for Cooperation and Development. Global Forum on Sustainable Development: Development and Climate Change - Background Papers (2004).
Climate change impacts on U.S. Coastal and Marine Ecosystems (pdf) (16 pp., 212 KB). Originally published in Estuaries 25:149-64 (2002) Research, CR 18:205-228 (2001). The full length report published as the coastal portion of the US National Assessment (pdf 182 pp., 3.7 MB) is also available.
IPCC Chapters and Reports Related to Sea Level Rise

Strategies for Adaption to Sea Level Rise - originally published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Response Strategies Working Group (1990). (summary) (pdf)
Strategies for Adaptation to Sea Level Rise - Incorrect but more commonly cited title for same report (pdf)
IPCC Chapters on the Impacts of Climate Change on the Coast

North America. From the 2007 Working Group 2 Report
North America. From the 2001 Working Group 2 Report
North America. From the 1998 Regional Impacts of Climate Change Report (summary) (pdf)
North America. Corrected bibliography, from the 1998 Regional Impacts of Climate Change Report

The first nationwide assessment of the impacts of sea level rise. Appendix B: Sea Level Rise (from EPA's 1989 Report to Congress: Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States , EPA-230-05-89-052 (1989)

"An Overview of the Nationwide Impacts of Sea Level Rise" (PDF, 56 pp., 841 KB) By James G. Titus and Michael S. Greene. In The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States. Report to Congress. Appendix B: Sea Level Rise. 1989. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA 230-05-89-052.