Coastal sea level anomalies and associated trends from Jason satellite altimetry over 2002-2018.

ABSTRACT: Climate-related sea level changes in the world coastal zones result from the superposition of the global mean rise due to ocean warming and land ice melt, regional changes caused by non-uniform ocean thermal expansion and salinity changes, and by the solid Earth response to current water mass redistribution and associated gravity change, plus small-scale coastal processes (e.g., shelf currents, wind & waves changes, fresh water input from rivers, etc.). So far, satellite altimetry has provided global gridded sea level time series up to 10-15 km to the coast only, preventing estimation of sea level changes very close to the coast. Here we present a 16-year-long (June 2002 to May 2018), high-resolution (20-Hz), along-track sea level dataset at monthly interval, together with associated sea l

SUBMITTER: Climate Change Initiative Coastal Sea Level Team 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7576834 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature