ATLANTIC_CH05_Product_1 / Spatial layer of absolute annually averaged sea level trend (in mm/year) for period of 10 years by stretch of coast

This product attempt to follow up on the sea level rise per stretch of coast of the North Atlantic, over past 10 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 10 years we extract the information from grided satellite altimetry data and extrapolate it to the nearest strecth of coast. The product is Provided in tabular form and as a map layer.