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Change Research Program, October 2014), http://s3.amazonaws.
com/nca2014/high/NCA3_Climate_Change_Impacts_in_the_United%20States_HighRes.pdf (accessed February 12, 2015), 396.
24. Ibid., 398.
25. USACE has developed an open-source on-line “sea level
calculator” to aid in obtaining low, intermediate and high-end
scenarios for sea level change based upon the National Research
Councils’ “Curves I, II and III; for this paper projections at both
Amalie, US Virgin Islands and Mayaguez, PR were checked.
Another Caribbean-specific data point is USGCRP’s notation of
current sea level rise causing the coastline of Puerto Rico around
Rincon being eroded at a rate of 3.3 feet per year. Though P.R. is
in U.S. NORTHERN COMMAND’s AOR, this data point is useful for SOUTHCOM planners considering risks in the Dominican
Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, etc., until NOAA or national weather
agencies emplace additional gauges and develop additional datasets. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Responses to Climate Change
Home page, “Sea level calculator,” http://www.corpsclimate.us/
ccaceslcurves.cfm (accessed January 31, 2015).
26. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported in 2014 that
the range of expected global mean sea level