Predicting And Preparing For Future Sea Level Rise

Brian Tarran, editor of Significance (www.significancemagazine.com), interviews Thordis L. Thorarinsdottir (https://www.nr.no/~thordis/), chief research scientist of the Norwegian Computing Center, about predicting future sea level rise, dealing with uncertainty in predictions, and advising policy makers on how to prepare for a changing world. For more on this topic, read: “How to save Bergen from the sea? Decisions under uncertainty”, by Peter Guttorp and Thordis L. Thorarinsdottir (https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2018.01125.x).

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