Global sea-level budget 1993–present

WCRP Global Sea Level Budget Group,

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1551-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1551-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1551-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

Review article

|

28 Aug 2018

Review article |

| 28 Aug 2018

Global sea-level budget 1993–present

WCRP Global Sea Level Budget Group

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Final revised paper (published on 28 Aug 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 15 May 2018)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of essd-2018-53', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer 1's comments and revised version', Anny Cazenave, 08 Jul 2018
EC1: 'Comment by editor on essd-2018-53', Giuseppe M.R. Manzella, 18 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer 2', Anny Cazenave, 22 Jul 2018
- AC3: 'Reply to Reviewer 2 (update)', Anny Cazenave, 23 Jul 2018
  - AC4: 'Reply to Reviewer 2 (update)', Anny Cazenave, 23 Jul 2018

Short summary

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. Studying the sea level budget, i.e., comparing observed global mean sea level to the sum of components (ocean thermal expansion, glaciers and ice sheet mass loss as well as changes in land water storage) improves our understanding of processes at work and provides constraints on missing contributions (e.g., deep ocean).