Station |
Location |
Record length (months) |
Trend
|
1 |
Cook Islands* |
77 |
+2.6 |
2 |
Samoa |
77 |
-7.7 |
3 |
Tonga |
78 |
+17.8 |
4 |
Tuvalu* |
75 |
-22.0 |
5 |
Fiji |
82 |
+0.01 |
6 |
Kiribati* |
75 |
-22.0 |
7 |
Marshall Islands* |
71 |
+2.9 |
8 |
Vanuatu |
68 |
+1.1 |
9 |
Nauru* |
72 |
-24.2 |
10 |
Solomon Islands |
58 (with gaps) |
-9.7 |
11 |
PNG |
45 (with gaps) |
+0.5 |
Table 2: Recent sea level trends in the project area, based upon project data to July 1999. Asterisks indicate countries seriously threatened by sea level rise. |