River-discharge effects on United States Atlantic and Gulf coast sea-level changes.

ABSTRACT: Identifying physical processes responsible for historical coastal sea-level changes is important for anticipating future impacts. Recent studies sought to understand the drivers of interannual to multidecadal sea-level changes on the United States Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Ocean dynamics, terrestrial water storage, vertical land motion, and melting of land ice were highlighted as important mechanisms of sea-level change along this densely populated coast on these time scales. While known to exert an important control on coastal ocean circulation, variable river discharge has been absent from recent discussions of drivers of sea-level change. We update calculations from the 1970s, comparing annual river-discharge and coastal sea-level data along the Gulf of Maine, Mid-Atlantic Bight, South

SUBMITTER: Piecuch CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6065007 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature