Closing the sea level budget on a regional scale

Trends and variability on the Northwestern European continental shelf

Journal article (2016)

Authors

T. Frederikse Physical and Space Geodesy -

R.E.M. Riva Physical and Space Geodesy -

M. Kleinherenbrink Physical and Space Geodesy -

Yoshihide Wada Universiteit Utrecht, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, Columbia University, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Michiel van den Broeke Universiteit Utrecht

Ben Marion University of Bremen

Research Group

Physical and Space Geodesy () (TU Delft)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL070750

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Published Date

27-09-2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Department

Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Research Group

Physical and Space Geodesy

Abstract

Long-term trends and decadal variability of sea level in the North Sea and along the Norwegian coast have been studied over the period 1958–2014. We model the spatially nonuniform sea level and solid earth response to large-scale ice melt and terrestrial water storage changes. GPS observations, corrected for the solid earth deformation, are used to estimate vertical land motion. We find a
clear correlation between sea level in the North Sea and along the Norwegian coast and open ocean steric variability in the Bay of Biscay and west of Portugal, which is consistent with the presence of wind-driven coastally trapped waves. The observed nodal cycle is consistent with tidal equilibrium. We are able to explain the observed sea level trend over the period 1958–2014 well within the standard error of the sum of all contributing processes, as well as the large majority of the observed decadal sea level variability.

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