Flood map

[gpop]

I found this a few years ago (see link below), at the time the maximum setting for +7 metres (or the equivalent of Greenland melting), now it has been upped to +60 metres (if Antarctica melts) difference from "normal" levels.

It is an imperfect modeling, but it really drives home the point about human contribution to the change in the earths climate.

Anyhoo..take a look at Buenos Aires at just +7m, in fact, have a look at the entire province from La Plata al the way to Mar del Plata... Pinamar becomes a tiny island and a large portion of the province is under water.
Anyone living in Palermo can testify to the flooding that occurs now with a good long rain. The topography of the city is littered with troublesome flood areas (J.B. Justo over an underground river for example).

I loosely "referenced" this map when I was looking to buy a house, because heavy precipitation does still have a big part to play in how flooding occurs in CF. I'm ok where I am now at +7m... but if it gets to +60m, I'll have to move to Pergamino . (ahhh beach-front property)!

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=-24.5271,-62.2265&z=14&m=7

of interest:
natgeo news: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0420_040420_earthday.html
wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise

 

[PhilipDT]

I'm not too worried about the sea level rising 1m much less 60m in my lifetime.

More worried about floating away in the next big rain storm.

 

[gpop]

I'm not too worried about the sea level rising 1m much less 60m in my lifetime.

More worried about floating away in the next big rain storm.

Well, no probably not in your lifetime (right now the mean sea level trend is +2 to 3 mm per year, depending on current mean temperature). This temperature change is still on the rise too, so the sea level is congruent with that.
Consider other occurrences in weather and/or oceanic displacement due to seismic activity. The south Atlantic is not without active volcanic activity (Sandwich Islands).
It's been fairly unremarkable up until now; it's only conjecture but who knows when something can occur there sending a tsunami in this direction. At least you can guesstimate where NOT to stand.

But as I said in the post, the reference was more to the point about rain than the rate of melting in Greenland. Still, we ought to be considerate of what our children will have to face in their lifetimes too and be more aggressive about human involvement in this matter.

 

[gpop]

So did anyone really feel the rain so far this week in Palermo and Belgrano? I think theres more coming!
If yes, just for a lark, refer to the map.

 

[va2ba]

If anything, looking at this map makes me much less worried. Everyone likes to make you think that if Antartica melts then EVERYTHING will be under water, but its really not even close.

 

[LaurenW]

va2ba you can't be serious! check out the east coast of the USA ... pretty much every major city will be under water if antarctica melts. then be sure to look at Europe as well. Goodbye, london, belgium, netherlands, denmark, etc. Sure, landlocked Belarus will be safe but for most of the rest of the world it would be absolutely catastrophic if the water level rose 60m.

 

[va2ba]

va2ba you can't be serious! check out the east coast of the USA ... pretty much every major city will be under water if antarctica melts. then be sure to look at Europe as well. Goodbye, london, belgium, netherlands, denmark, etc. Sure, landlocked Belarus will be safe but for most of the rest of the world it would be absolutely catastrophic if the water level rose 60m.

My point was, the instead of having the entire world underwater, as we are sometimes led to believe, that most of the land on earth won't change. Don't expect me to be upset that cities of steel and concrete might go underwater. People can move and will move away from the sea if they have to.

And its not that the sea level is going to rise 60m in a year, or ten years or even a hundred years. There will be no lose in life in North America or Europe. The only areas that there is real cause for concern are the pacific islands and certain low lying countries.

But if, heaven forbid, the sea level does rise that far, people will move, and so the cities will move too. The world won't end if the sea rises that far, that why I felt more comfortable after seeing the map.

 

[Fabe]

Buenos aires is pretty much a floodplain. There are verry few spots over 2 meters above sea level most of the way to the andes. If im not mistaken , there were ancient inland sea(s)

 

[Matt84]

I love the map generator, it would be cool if you could also lower the water level so you can easily see what seamounts and basins would form as new islands. Cool tool for alternative history writings.

On a different note today I had no choice but to walk knee-deep half on fresh rain water and overflowed sewage a plein Recoleta. Some ladies were very elegantly holding their shoes up in their hands while trash bags navigated around. Cars provoked a very realistic and refreshing surf . Who needs the ocean?

 

[Bajo_cero2]

So did anyone really feel the rain so far this week in Palermo and Belgrano? I think theres more coming!
If yes, just for a lark, refer to the map.

For the last years there was flood across Juan B Justo as soon as under it there is a river. The same happends under Mendoza, Ruiz Huidobro, Viamonte and Camargo.
The bajo belgrano and Ca;itas used to be swamps so, guess what? That s why Solar de la Abadia Shopping floats, literally.
Regards