Comments on: Flood Maps on your Web-Site

By: J

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:51:25 +0000

Hi there, We were actually using your flood map on parts of Queensland before the floods, including on Brisbane itself, mostly just as a thought exercise.

Now that it’s happened, it seems that the ~6m river rise flooded more or less the same profile as the 14m rise on your flood map – can you think of any reason for the difference?

Here is a link to a map of the flooding: http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.502181%2C153.031998&z=12&t=k&nmd=20110113&source=embed

And also, seeing as Brisbane has now used up it’s 14m predictable levels, any chance we can get it bumped up higher? I’d be keen to see 30m at least.

Thanks.

By: Edgar Tan

Edgar Tan — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:39:59 +0000

Hi Alex,

Good work! This will help people a lot.

Can you please increase the seawater rise up to +200m and see what will be the safe locations?

This could happen in the very near future.

Keep up the good work, man!

By: lifereaper

lifereaper — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:45:47 +0000

can you make a map to show the volume of water on the ocean floor dropping ass well your 14 m should in 2037 the drop of the ocean floor should 20 m to 150 m now the one volcano is going off 1983 Hawaii big island ass prof of the pacific floor dropping

By: Farrokh. Barzegar

Farrokh. Barzegar — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:50:43 +0000

Line 6& 7 in my previous comment should be corrected as of below: Your 2 M level rise, tome it means that sea level has been actually raised to 27-28 M above ITS PRESENT LEVEL and so on Sorry for inconveniences

By: Farrokh. Barzegar

Farrokh. Barzegar — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:41:48 +0000

Dear Sir I have been faced with a very important question,while looking at flood map around Caspian Sea . The point is exsiting Caspian Sea average surface is almost between – 25 to -26 below the free sea surface of the world. When you consider your zero line in fact means that the Caspian sea level has been rised 25 or 26 metre above its present level .Naturall y when you show your 2 M level rise, to me it means that sea level has been acually raised to 27-28 meteres above the free surface level of the word and so on . Could you tell me weather this problem is solved or not ? Dont oyu think that the Flood map around Caspian Sea should be revised and in fact corrected, based on the existing fact present sea level. Waiting to receive your kind explanantion

By: Jef Cameron-Hawkins

Jef Cameron-Hawkins — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:21:31 +0000

I too wish to thank you for your work in generating this map information. It's incredibly informative, and I'm grateful for your hard work.

I'm currently an unemployed writer working on a speculative novel set 150 years in our future. At the time of my story, the sea level has risen 19 meters.

I have no idea how easy or difficult it would be to add information to your system to accommodate all the high-sea-level requests you've received, but even small increases would be greatly appreciated. Please drop a comment on here to let us know of your thoughts on all this - Thank You!

By: Mr. H. A. Ganaie

Mr. H. A. Ganaie — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:31:43 +0000

This is really good job. Could you help me in, how can i make flood zones in my study area.

By: Miguel Alva

Miguel Alva — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:47:53 +0000

Es una manera exelente y didáctica de mostrar los escenarios que se pueden dar al incrementarse el nivel del mar, ya se por efectos del deshielo de los glaciares polares y/o continentales como consecuencia del calentamiento global o por los efectos secundarios a los sismos, como son los tsunamis.

By: M. Jalil Ahmed

M. Jalil Ahmed — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:01:11 +0000

An excellent work made available for information of all. I see a number of requests to see a map where they can see a worst scenario of flood up to 200 feet and the pre-historic shore lines when water was 500 feet below the present sea level. My appreciations for good work. Do add a word about the accuracy of the flood line that we see. Can we see a more detailed map of the city/area of our choice?

By: Carl Hurst

Carl Hurst — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:39:42 +0000

In view of possible cataclysmic events where the poles might shift a few degrees, it is postulated that the equatorial ocean water bulge of up to 490 feet will shift to the spin of the new equator. Thus this very real ocean bulge could show floods of 400 ft or more above current sea level measurements on new land masses. Is it possible for you with your marvelous program to add a few incremental steps using, say a few 20 or 30 meter steps to equal at the final step the level of at least 200 ft (current) ASL? I hope this is not a great deal of effort for you, but it could be a very useful tool for the general population if and when the time comes to make some very hard decisions.

Thanks kindly in advance - Carl Hurst