ATLANTIC_CH05_Product_2 / Spatial layer of absolute annually averaged sea level trend (in mm/year) for period of 50 years

This product attempt to follow up on the sea level rise per stretch of coast of the North Atlantic, over past 50 years as follows: • Characterization of absolute sea level trend at annual resolution, along the coasts of EU Member States (including Outermost Regions), Canada, Faroes, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, Morocco, Norway and USA; The stretchs or coast are defined by the administrative regions of the Atlantic Coast: • from NUTS3** administrative division for EU countries (see Eurostat), and
• from GADM*** administrative divisions for non-EU countries. ** Third level of Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics *** Global Administrative Areas

For absolute sea level trend for 50 years we extract the information from grided sea level reconstruction datasets (using a combination of satellite and tide gauges) and extrapolate it to the nearest strecth of coast if the distance from the stretch of Coast to the nearest grid point is smaller than the horizontal grid resolution, if the distance is larger it´s considered to have a gap. The product is Provided in tabular form and as a map layer.