Publication - Understanding the spatial variation of sea level rise in the North Sea using satellite altimetry
Abstract
This paper examines the spatial variation of sea surface height trends in the North Sea Basin as seen by satellite altimetry and assesses its underlying causes. Changes in the potential temperature and salinity of the North Sea are transposed into corresponding changes in sea surface height and regional anomalies of linear sea level trend calculated. The same is carried out for the meteorological processes which act on the sea surface. The steric and meteorological regional sea level rise anomalies are summed with those from contributions from land ice and compared against the values seen by satellite altime- try over the period 1993 - 2014. Results show that there is good agreement between the observations and the reconstruction. The local meteorological contribution appears to be most important in describing regional variation in linear sea level rise and is reinforced with a local halosteric contribution which shows a similar spatial pattern.
Authors
| Name | Organization |
| P. Sterlini | Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) |
| Dewi Le Bars | |
| Hylke de Vries | Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) |
| Nina Ridder | |
Datasets
No datasets linked to this publication yetProjects
| Title | Funding id | Period |
| Validating recently-developed twenty-first century regional sea level projections using satellite observations | 866.13.004 | 2014-02-01 - 2017-08-31 |
External resource
Publication type
Journal Article
Date
2017-08
Journal
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Volume
122
Issue
8
Pages
6498-6511
DOI
Keywords
- halosteric contribution
- north sea
- sea level variability
