Sliding Shores needs JavaScript and WebGL
Sliding Shores is an interactive 3D globe that lets you drag a slider to set global sea level anywhere from −11,000 m (every ocean drained to the Mariana Trench floor) to +8,849 m (water past the peak of Mount Everest). It uses real ETOPO 2022 elevation data from NOAA, rendered live in your browser with WebGL.
Built-in scenarios include the Messinian salinity crisis when the Mediterranean was a desert basin, the Black Sea deluge, the Last Glacial Maximum (Doggerland on dry land), the Eemian highstand, IPCC sea-level projections for 2100, the West Antarctic ice sheet collapse, full Greenland ice sheet melt, all polar ice melted, and the Cretaceous highstand 90 million years ago.
Please enable JavaScript and use a WebGL-capable browser to explore the globe. Read more about the project →
Sliding ShoresSee the world at any sea level