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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Volume 478, Issue 2261, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2022.0049
Keywords
sea level; climate change; ocean warming; land ice loss
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- International Space Science Institute (ISSI, Bern Switzerland)
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This article provides a comprehensive overview of the recent changes in sea level, focusing on global and regional variations over interannual to decadal timescales. It also highlights the progress made in measuring sea level at the coast and presents the latest sea-level projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Sea-level variations spread over a very broad spectrum of spatial and temporal scales as a result of complex processes occurring in the Earth System in response to natural variability of the climate system, as well as to external forcing due to natural phenomena and anthropogenic factors. Here, we address contemporary sea-level changes, focusing on the satellite altimetry era (since the early 1990s), for which various observing systems from space and in situ allow precise monitoring of sea-level variations from global to local scales, as well as improved understanding of the components responsible for the observed variations. This overview presents the most recent results on observed global and regional sea-level changes and on associated causes, focusing on the interannual to decadal time scale. Recent progress in measuring sea level at the coast are presented. Finally, a summary of the most recent sea-level projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is also provided.
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