When the floods come to San Francisco
UPDATE: you can get posters of Flooded San Francisco (aka 25 foot sea level rise) Maps here.
I've been working on my San Francisco topographic map over several years. The one in the earlier post is actually a rough copy. The final version will have text, much in the vein of a classic atlas.
Burrito Justice put together a great post San Francisco Archipelago, which used my SF topo map as a base. The combination of the imagined future news report on San Francisco, coupled with the flooded SF map is a true delight. In addition, Bernalwood's piece on how the flood would affect Bernal Heights was great. The photo is priceless. In fact, Bernal Heights would fare very well with 200 feet of sea level rise. All of the Cortland Street commercial district would remain, as well as Holly Park and Reservoir, and Bernal Peak of course. The only loser would be Cutting Edge Salon, since it sits at about 195 feet above current sea level.
Ironically, I'd been working on a 25 foot flooded SF map. So, I'm posting what a 25 foot flood map would look like. I'll leave the news article fiction to Burrito Justice. Not quite as dramatic as the archipelago with its 200 foot flood (or the 300 foot flood). That said, a 25 foot sea rise could happen in many of our lifetimes, especially if we lose the Greenland or West Antarctica ice sheets.
Please note that the elevations noted are based on 2012 sea level. Subtract 25 feet to determine updated elevations.
UPDATE 2/23/2013: To see the same map but with STREETS, see my "Streets of Flooded San Francisco" post.
I've been working on my San Francisco topographic map over several years. The one in the earlier post is actually a rough copy. The final version will have text, much in the vein of a classic atlas.
Burrito Justice put together a great post San Francisco Archipelago, which used my SF topo map as a base. The combination of the imagined future news report on San Francisco, coupled with the flooded SF map is a true delight. In addition, Bernalwood's piece on how the flood would affect Bernal Heights was great. The photo is priceless. In fact, Bernal Heights would fare very well with 200 feet of sea level rise. All of the Cortland Street commercial district would remain, as well as Holly Park and Reservoir, and Bernal Peak of course. The only loser would be Cutting Edge Salon, since it sits at about 195 feet above current sea level.
Ironically, I'd been working on a 25 foot flooded SF map. So, I'm posting what a 25 foot flood map would look like. I'll leave the news article fiction to Burrito Justice. Not quite as dramatic as the archipelago with its 200 foot flood (or the 300 foot flood). That said, a 25 foot sea rise could happen in many of our lifetimes, especially if we lose the Greenland or West Antarctica ice sheets.
UPDATE 2/23/2013: To see the same map but with STREETS, see my "Streets of Flooded San Francisco" post.
Very cool, and very fun.
ReplyDeleteA map indicating 6 feet of sea level rise might be cool to chart, too, at least when it comes to highlighting the threat of sea level rise "in our lifetime."
While the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets might well collapse, engendering flooding of biblical proportions, and while we might well set that in motion with the pollution we emit in the next 20-40 years, the actual melt of those ice sheets will almost certainly take a few hundred years, at least.
Just sayin' : )
The models vary, but all agree that there's no way to avoid the Greenland melt at this point. Just a matter of when. It could be gradual or the ice could slip off into the sea in a very short time. Greenland alone will eventually bring the levels up 25 to 27 feet. With feedback loops, that could easily happen in our lifetimes, if we're gonna live another 60 years.
ReplyDeleteHowever, between wave acton and increased storms, the shorelines will change in other ways not represented here.
Poster version of the 25' Sea Level Rise in San Francisco is coming soon. Stay tuned. Once it's ready, we'll post on how you can get the poster of the map.
ReplyDeleteGreat map, but I would like to see what the entire Bay Area looks like. Would most of Oakland be underwater, would the Diablo Valley become a large inland sea, would San Jose disappear?
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