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The video zooms in on the area around the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, on an altitude-colored, relief-shaded map with present coastline outlined and any large cities (pop. over 250,000-300,000) marked, with the sea level rising from 135 m below present, like at the last glacial maximum, 21,000 years ago, to 65 m above present, like if all remaining ice sheets would melt, possibly 270 (cubic regression of NASA sea level data 1993-2018) - 10,000 (linear regression of post-glacial sea level) years into the future. The map is centered on 29°N 34°E, with a final 6° vertical field of vision, meaning a 1186x667 km2 area and 0.9 km/px resolution. Large cities in view (not flooded in parentheses): Cairo, Alexandria, (Amman), (Jerusalem), Port Said, Suez, (Tabuk), Al Maḩallah al Kubrá, Asyūţ, Al Manşūrah, Gaza, Tanda, Al Fayyūm, Zagazig, Ismailia, Kafr ad Dawwār. CC BY 4.0 SeaLevelRise.se, 2018, http://sealevelrise.se, rendered using custom PERL script, ImageMagick and FFmpeg, from open geodata, the GEBCO_2014 Grid, version 20150318, and cities15000 CC BY 4.0 GeoNames, 2018. The view is also available as an interactive 3D scene at http://sealevelrise.se/en/earth_3d1/map1078.html . The video is part of the collection Post-Glacial Sea Level Rise 2, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SgRGKF7pUy1OPJIPKJ7ed0pzIX1jF9L [l2jzUGPeBbQ] |