Figure 2: Projected mean sea level rise at the 30 satellite altimeter locations along the coast of
Malaysia for year 2100. Red circles indicate values higher than 0.4 m rise (Source: NAHRIM, 2010
rise based on satellite altimetry data (from 19932010), respectively.
Table 3 compares the Mean SLR for Malaysian
coastline and Global Mean SLR using tide gauge
and satellite altimeter data while Table 4 shows
the projections of SLR for 2100 along the coast of
Malaysia. Figures 1 and 2 indicate the projected
mean sea level rise for the Malaysian coast in the
year 2040 and 2100 respectively.
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