Contribution of the steric and ocean mass change to the global sea level change since 2003

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10.2991/rsete.2013.225How to use a DOI?

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sea level rise, steric change, GRACE

Abstract

The contribution of the water mass change and the steric change of the ocean to the long term global mean sea level trend during 2003-2011 is analyzed in this paper, basing on the data of multiple satellite altimeter, GRACE gravity satellite and the Ishii (2012) temperature and salinity dataset. A steady rising rate of the global mean sea level since 1993 is found with little change in the 2003-2011. The steric change of the water in the layer of 700-1500 m is almost as important as the upper 700 m, the upper 1500 m waters contribute 18% to the global mean sea level rise and the contribution of the mass change over the ocean is 21%.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meixiang Chen
AU  - Peidong He
AU  - Juan Li
AU  - Wei Tan
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - Contribution of the steric and ocean mass change to the global sea level change since 2003
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 the International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 927
EP  - 930
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rsete.2013.225
DO  - 10.2991/rsete.2013.225
ID  - Chen2013/08
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