Publications

IPCC Reports

IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.

Ranasinghe, R., A. C. Ruane, R. Vautard, N. Arnell, E. Coppola, F. A. Cruz, S. Dessai, A. S. Islam, M. Rahimi, D. Ruiz Carrascal, J. Sillmann, M. B. Sylla, C. Tebaldi, W. Wang, R. Zaaboul, 2021, Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.

Arias, P. A., N. Bellouin, E. Coppola, R. G. Jones, G. Krinner, J. Marotzke, V. Naik, M. D. Palmer, G-K. Plattner, J. Rogelj, M. Rojas, J. Sillmann, T. Storelvmo, P. W. Thorne, B. Trewin, K. Achuta Rao, B. Adhikary, R. P. Allan, K. Armour, G. Bala, R. Barimalala, S. Berger, J. G. Canadell, C. Cassou, A. Cherchi, W. Collins, W. D. Collins, S. L. Connors, S. Corti, F. Cruz, F. J. Dentener, C. Dereczynski, A. Di Luca, A. Diongue Niang, F. J. Doblas-Reyes, A. Dosio, H. Douville, F. Engelbrecht, V. Eyring, E. Fischer, P. Forster, B. Fox-Kemper, J. S. Fuglestvedt, J. C. Fyfe, N. P. Gillett, L. Goldfarb, I. Gorodetskaya, J. M. Gutierrez, R. Hamdi, E. Hawkins, H. T. Hewitt, P. Hope, A. S. Islam, C. Jones, D. S. Kaufman, R. E. Kopp, Y. Kosaka, J. Kossin, S. Krakovska, J-Y. Lee, J. Li, T. Mauritsen, T. K. Maycock, M. Meinshausen, S-K. Min, P. M. S. Monteiro, T. Ngo-Duc, F. Otto, I. Pinto, A. Pirani, K. Raghavan, R. Ranasinghe, A. C. Ruane, L. Ruiz, J-B. Sallée, B. H. Samset, S. Sathyendranath, S. I. Seneviratne, A. A. Sörensson, S. Szopa, I. Takayabu, A-M. Treguier, B. van den Hurk, R. Vautard, K. von Schuckmann, S. Zaehle, X. Zhang, K. Zickfeld, 2021, Technical Summary. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.

Fox-Kemper, B., H. T. Hewitt, C. Xiao, G. Aðalgeirsdóttir, S. S. Drijfhout, T. L. Edwards, N. R. Golledge, M. Hemer, R. E. Kopp, G. Krinner, A. Mix, D. Notz, S. Nowicki, I. S. Nurhati, L. Ruiz, J-B. Sallée, A. B. A. Slangen, Y. Yu, 2021, Ocean, Cryosphere and Sea Level Change. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.

Seneviratne, S. I., X. Zhang, M. Adnan, W. Badi, C. Dereczynski, A. Di Luca, S. Ghosh, I. Iskandar, J. Kossin, S. Lewis, F. Otto, I. Pinto, M. Satoh, S. M. Vicente-Serrano, M. Wehner, B. Zhou, 2021, Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.

Gutiérrez, J. M., R. G. Jones, G. T. Narisma, L. M. Alves, M. Amjad, I. V. Gorodetskaya, M. Grose, N. A. B. Klutse, S. Krakovska, J. Li, D. Martínez-Castro, L. O. Mearns, S. H. Mernild, T. Ngo-Duc, B. van den Hurk, J-H. Yoon, 2021, Atlas. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.

IPCC, 2021: Annex VI: Climatic Impact-Driver and Extreme Indices [Gutiérrez J. M., R. Ranasinghe, A. C. Ruane, R. Vautard (eds.)].  In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.

Selected Journal publications (2014 onwards)

Tebaldi, C., Ranasinghe, R., Vousdoukas, M., Rasmussen, D. J., Vega-Westhoff, B., Kirezci, E., Kopp, R., Sriver, R, Mentaschi, L. Extreme Sea Levels at different global warming levels. Nature Climate Change (in press).

Almar, R., Ranasinghe, R., Bergsma, E., Diaz, H., Melet, A., Papa, F., Vousdoukas, M., Athanasiou, P., Dada, O., Almeida, L., Kestenare, E. 2021. A global analysis of extreme coastal water levels with implications for potential coastal overtopping. Nature Communications, Vol 12, 3775.

Bamunawala, J., Ranasinghe, R., Dastgheib, A., Nicholls, R. J., Murray, A.B., Barnard, P, Sirisena, J., Duong, T., Hulscher, S. J. M. H., van der Spek, A. 2021. Twenty-first-century projections of shoreline change along inlet-interrupted coastlines. Scientific Reports, Vol 11, 14038.

Vousdoukas, M., Ranasinghe, R., Mentaschi, L., Plomaritis, T., Athanasiou, P., Luijendijk, A., Feyen, L. 2020. Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion.  Nature Climate Change, Vol 10(3), 260 -263.

Ranasinghe, R. 2020. On the need for a new generation of coastal change models for the 21st century. Scientific Reports, Vol 10, 2010.

Meucci, A., Young, I. R., Hemer, M., Kirezci, E., Ranasinghe, R. 2020. Projected 21^st Century changes in extreme wind-wave events. Science Advances, Vol. 6, eaaz7295.

Udo, K., Ranasinghe, R., Takeda, Y. 2020. An assessment of measured and computed depth of closure around Japan. Scientific Reports, Vol 10, 2987.

Athanasiou, P., van Dongeren, A., Giardino, A, Vousdoukas, M., Ranasinghe, R., Kwadijk, J. 2020. Uncertainties in projections of sandy beach erosion due to sea level rise: an analysis at the European scale. Scientific Reports, Vol. 10, 11895.

Kirezci, E., Young, I.R., Ranasinghe, R., Muis, S., Nicholls, R.J., Lincke, D., Hinkel, J. 2020. Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century. Scientific Reports, Vol. 10, 11629.

Ranasinghe, R., Wu, C. S., Conallin, J., Duong, T.M. and Anthony, E.J. 2019. Disentangling the relative impacts of climate change and human activities on fluvial sediment supply to the coast by the world’s large rivers:  Pearl River Basin, China. Scientific Reports, Vol 9, 9236.

Le Cozannet, G., Bulteau, T., Castelle, B., Ranasinghe, R., Woppelmann, G., Rohmer, J., Bernon, N., Idier, D., Louisor, J. and Salas-y-Melia, D. 2019. Quantifying uncertainties of sandy shoreline change projections as sea level rises. Scientific Reports, Vol 9, 42.

Luijendijk, A.P., Hagenaars, G., Ranasinghe, R, Baart, F., Donchyts, G and Aarninkhof, S. 2018. The State of the World’s Beaches. Scientific reports, Vol 8, 6641.

Ranasinghe, R., 2016. Assessing Climate change impacts on Coasts: A Review. Earth Science Reviews, Vol. 160, 320-332.

Jongejan R., Ranasinghe, R., Wainwright D., Callaghan D. and Reyns J. 2016. Drawing the line on coastline recession risk. Ocean and Coastal Management, Vol. 122, 87-94.