Fig. 1: Published estimates of peak global mean sea level (GMSL) from coastal sedimentary archives during past warm periods. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 1: Published estimates of peak global mean sea level (GMSL) from coastal sedimentary archives during past warm periods.

From: Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets

Fig. 1

A the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e); B MIS 11; and C the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period. Estimates are plotted from left to right in chronological order of publication, numbered along the x-axis, with corresponding references listed in Supplementary Table 2). Symbols represent GMSL estimates with no GIA correction (blue circles); data combined with GIA modelling (red squares); GIA and dynamic topography modelling (red diamonds); Antarctic only contribution with GIA correction (red triangle, labelled with arrow); a preferred estimate of GIA corrected output (solid red rectangle); and a maximum estimate based on an analysis of amplitude of sea-level change from marine sediments (grey bar with downward pointing arrow). Horizontal dashed lines in (A) denote the +6 to +9 m range proposed in a previous assessment38.

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