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31 Jul 2024
Data description paper |
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Probabilistic reconstruction of sea-level changes and their causes since 1900
Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Qiang Sun
Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Thomas Wahl
Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Philip Thompson
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Jerry X. Mitrovica
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Ben Hamlington
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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Sea-level information from the global ocean is sparse in time and space, with comprehensive data being limited to the period since 2005. Here we provide a novel reconstruction of sea level and its contributing causes, as determined by a Kalman smoother approach applied to tide gauge records over the period 1900–2021. The new reconstruction shows a continuing acceleration in global mean sea-level rise since 1970 that is dominated by melting land ice. Contributors vary significantly by region.
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