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Special Issue on Sea Level Rise Hans-Peter Plag Published on Aug. 31, 2025, last updated |. The special issue “Sea Level Changes: Advances in Observation Techniques, Modeling, and Understanding of Causes and Impacts” of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering calls for papers that discuss recent advances in understanding the driving causes of sea level changes and address the potential impacts on coastal areas in a risk governance context. Share

Future sea level rise poses a high risk to the rapidly increasing population in many coastal location. Future sea level rise poses a high risk to the rapidly increasing population in many coastal location. Unlike heat waves, droughts, storms and river floods, which have severe impacts on local to regional scales, a significant sea level rise will have impacts at the global scales. A rapid sea level rise caused be a collapse of parts of the Greenland or Antarctic ice sheets could result in massive migration, catastrophic loss of production capabilities and coastal real estate, and unprecedented pollution of the ocean. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a better assessment of the full range of plausible sea level rise trajectories at local and regional scales to enable responsible risk governance. Forecasting decadal sea level changes at local and regional scales is an urgently needed services for engaged in risk governance in coastal settlements and mega cities. The special issue will consider advances in modeling to enable such a forecasting. Scenario studies can help to establishing the probability density function of future sea level rise from local to global scales, which is a crucial input for thorough risk assessments. Assessing the potential impacts of sea level changes on coastal areas is another central input for risk governance. The special issue calls for papers that discuss recent advances in understanding the driving causes of sea level changes, and address the potential impacts on coastal areas in a risk governance context.

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