What does RSL stand for?

Relative Sea Level

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Samples in periodicals archive:

9 mm in the combined net rate of relative sea level at Port Kembla, south of Sydney, since the station was installed in 1991.

Rise in sea levels on Australia's eastern seaboard much slower than ...

And if, under the influence of melting ice sheets, "the global sea level rise is higher, the relative sea level rise will be superimposed.

Wall St. underwater: rising seas to hit NY hard

And if, under the influence of melting ice sheets, "the global sea level rise is higher, the relative sea level rise will be superimposed.

Wall St. underwater: rising seas to hit NY hard

Averaged around Australia, relative sea level rise for the period 1920 to 2000 was about 1.

Sea levels are rising while storms intensify

Yet with global warming as a real threat, the Environment Agency's State of the Environment 2003 report says heavy winter rain will become more frequent as relative sea levels rise.

Property in-site

Britain's raised beaches show that relative sea levels have been up to 125ft higher than those of today.

Letter: Global truth

If a coastline moves up or down while the ocean stays the same, a gauge will still indicate a change in relative sea level.

Rising seas may herald global warming

According to Dr Jago Cooper, of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, "Populations in the Caribbean, from 5000 BC to AD 1492, successfully lived through a 5m rise in relative sea levels, marked variation in annual rainfall and periodic intensification of hurricane activity.

Look to the past in order to mitigate worst effects of climate change