How much land floods if the sea rises, or seafloor dries if it falls?
The share of land flooded by a rise in sea level, or of seafloor laid dry by a fall, from ETOPO 2022 terrain.
Land left
29.2 %
At today’s sea level, 29.2 % of Earth’s surface is land.
- Ocean water left
- 100 %
- Seafloor laid dry
- 0 %
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How it is worked out
change_m = 0: today’s values (LAND(0) = 0.29225348ocean = 1.3375e9 km³)Where the numbers come from
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