Global sea level budget 1993-present
Global mean sea level is an integral of changes occurring in the climate system in response to unforced climate variability as well as natural and anthropogenic forcing factors. Its temporal evolution allows detecting changes (e.g., acceleration) in one or more components. Study of the sea level bud...
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ftunivreading:oai:centaur.reading.ac.uk:77195 2024-09-15T17:45:31+00:00 Global sea level budget 1993-present Global Sea Level Budget Group, W. C. R. P. Cazenave, A. Merchant, Christopher 2018 text https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/77195/ https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/77195/9/essd-10-1551-2018.pdf https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/77195/1/essd-2018-53.pdf en eng Copernicus Publications https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/77195/9/essd-10-1551-2018.pdf https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/77195/1/essd-2018-53.pdf Global Sea Level Budget Group, W. C. R. P., Cazenave, A. and Merchant, C. <https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/view/creators/90005270.html> orcid:0000-0003-4687-9850 (2018) Global sea level budget 1993-present. Earth System Science Data, 10 (3). pp. 1551-1590. ISSN 1866-3516 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2018-53 <https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2018-53> cc_by_4 Article PeerReviewed 2018 ftunivreading https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2018-53 2024-06-25T15:01:38Z Global mean sea level is an integral of changes occurring in the climate system in response to unforced climate variability as well as natural and anthropogenic forcing factors. Its temporal evolution allows detecting changes (e.g., acceleration) in one or more components. Study of the sea level budget provides constraints on missing or poorly known contributions, such as the unsurveyed deep ocean or the still uncertain land water component. In the context of the World Climate Research Programme Grand Challenge entitled “Regional Sea Level and Coastal Impacts”, an international effort involving the sea level community worldwide has been recently initiated with the objective of assessing the various data sets used to estimate components of the sea level budget during the altimetry era (1993 to present). These data sets are based on the combination of a broad range of space-based and in situ observations, model estimates and algorithms. Evaluating their quality, quantifying uncertainties and identifying sources of discrepancies between component estimates is extremely useful for various applications in climate research. This effort involves several tens of scientists from about fifty research teams/institutions worldwide (www.wcrp-climate.org/grand-challenges/gc-sea- level). The results presented in this paper are a synthesis of the first assessment performed during 2017-2018. We present estimates of the altimetry-based global mean sea level (average rate of 3.1 +/- 0.3 mm/yr and acceleration of 0.1 mm/yr2 over 1993-present), as well as of the different components of the sea level budget (http://doi.org/10.17882/54854). We further examine closure of the sea level budget, comparing the observed global mean sea level with the sum of components. Ocean thermal expansion, glaciers, Greenland and Antarctica contribute by 42%, 21%, 15% and 8% to the global mean sea level over the 1993-present. We also study the sea level budget over 2005-present, using GRACE-based ocean mass estimates instead of sum of individual mass ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Greenland CentAUR: Central Archive at the University of Reading |
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Global mean sea level is an integral of changes occurring in the climate system in response to unforced climate variability as well as natural and anthropogenic forcing factors. Its temporal evolution allows detecting changes (e.g., acceleration) in one or more components. Study of the sea level budget provides constraints on missing or poorly known contributions, such as the unsurveyed deep ocean or the still uncertain land water component. In the context of the World Climate Research Programme Grand Challenge entitled “Regional Sea Level and Coastal Impacts”, an international effort involving the sea level community worldwide has been recently initiated with the objective of assessing the various data sets used to estimate components of the sea level budget during the altimetry era (1993 to present). These data sets are based on the combination of a broad range of space-based and in situ observations, model estimates and algorithms. Evaluating their quality, quantifying uncertainties and identifying sources of discrepancies between component estimates is extremely useful for various applications in climate research. This effort involves several tens of scientists from about fifty research teams/institutions worldwide (www.wcrp-climate.org/grand-challenges/gc-sea- level). The results presented in this paper are a synthesis of the first assessment performed during 2017-2018. We present estimates of the altimetry-based global mean sea level (average rate of 3.1 +/- 0.3 mm/yr and acceleration of 0.1 mm/yr2 over 1993-present), as well as of the different components of the sea level budget (http://doi.org/10.17882/54854). We further examine closure of the sea level budget, comparing the observed global mean sea level with the sum of components. Ocean thermal expansion, glaciers, Greenland and Antarctica contribute by 42%, 21%, 15% and 8% to the global mean sea level over the 1993-present. We also study the sea level budget over 2005-present, using GRACE-based ocean mass estimates instead of sum of individual mass ... |
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https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/77195/9/essd-10-1551-2018.pdf https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/77195/1/essd-2018-53.pdf Global Sea Level Budget Group, W. C. R. P., Cazenave, A. and Merchant, C. <https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/view/creators/90005270.html> orcid:0000-0003-4687-9850 (2018) Global sea level budget 1993-present. Earth System Science Data, 10 (3). pp. 1551-1590. ISSN 1866-3516 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2018-53 <https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2018-53> |
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