Sea-level change in the Australasian region during the past 6000 years: Understanding the past to predict the future.

气候、冰、海洋和固体地球的相互作用导致了海平面在时间和空间上的复杂变化。这一建议通过地球物理理论和地质观测的跨学科整合，发展了对这一变化的预测性理解。重点放在澳大利亚地区和目前的间冰期，但结果将放在全球框架内。结果将包括估计海平面变化的速度和幅度、冰量的变化、均衡和构造原因造成的陆地运动。它还提供了必要的框架，以区分最近过去的自然变化和人为变化，并在一个世纪的时间尺度上预测未来的区域和全球海平面变化。

Interactions of climate, ice, oceans, and solid earth result in complex variations sea level in time and space. This proposal develops a predictive understanding of this change through an interdisciplinary integration of geophysical theory and geologic observations. Focus is on the Australian area and on the present interglacial but the outcomes will be placed in a global frame. Outcomes will include estimates of rates and amplitudes of sea-level change, of changes in ice volume, of land movements from isostatic and tectonic causes. It also provides the framework necessary for separating natural change from anthropogenic change during the recent past and for predicting future regional and global sea-level change on a century time scale.