New Study: 88% Of Venice’s Shoreline Is Now Stable Or Expanding As Sea Level Rise Slows Since 1970
By Kenneth Richard on 9. February 2023
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Scientists have combined remote sensing data with machine learning to determine the Venice coast “is stable, or mainly subjected to accretion in the period 2015-2019.”
Venice has been sinking into the sea (subsidence) at a rate of ~24 cm per century since the 19th century.
Fortunately, in recent decades the regional sea level rise has rapidly decelerated. The sea level rise rate was +2.5 mm/yr from 1872-1969 along the Venice coast, but then from 1970-2000 the sea level rise rate slowed to just +0.7 mm/yr (Munaretto et al., 2012).
Image Source: Munaretto et al., 2012
In the last few years (2015-2019) 83 km of Venice’s considered shoreline has been stable (36%) or growing (52%) in size (Fogarin et al., 2023). Just 5% of the Venice coast has been subjected to erosion.
https://notrickszone.com/2023/02/09/new-study-88-of-venices-shoreline-is-now-stable-or-expanding-as-sea-level-rise-slows-since-1970/
