Reviews of Geophysics, volume 58, issue 3

Understanding of Contemporary Regional Sea‐Level Change and the Implications for the Future

Benjamin D. Hamlington ¹

A. W. Gardner ¹

E. R. Ivins ¹

Jan T. M. Lenaerts ²

John T. Reager ¹

David S. Trossman ³

Edward D. Zaron ⁴

S. Adhikari ¹

Anthony A. Arendt ⁵

Andy Aschwanden ⁶

Brian D Beckley ⁷

David P. S. Bekaert ¹

G. Blewitt ⁸

L. Caron ¹

Don P. Chambers ⁹

H A Chandanpurkar ¹

K. Christianson ¹⁰

Beata Csatho ¹¹

B. Csatho ¹¹

Richard I. Cullather ¹²

Robert M. DeConto ¹³

J. Fasullo ¹⁴

Thomas Frederikse ¹

J. Freymueller ¹⁵

Daniel M. Gilford ¹⁶

Manuela Girotto ¹⁷

William Hammond ⁸

REGINE HOCK ¹⁸

Nicholas Holschuh ¹⁰

Robert Kopp ¹⁷

F. Landerer ¹

E. Larour ¹

Dimitris Menemenlis ¹

Mark A. Merrifield ¹⁹

Jerry X. Mitrovica ²⁰

R M Nerem ²¹

Isabel J. Nias ^{12, 21}

V. Nieves ²²

S. Nowicki ²¹

Kishore Pangaluru ²³

P. Kishore ²³

C. Piecuch ²⁴

Richard I. Ray ²¹

D. R. Rounce ¹⁸

Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel ¹

Helene Seroussi ¹

Manoochehr Shirzaei ²⁵

William V. Sweet ²⁶

I. Velicogna ²²

Nadya Vinogradova ²⁷

Thomas Wahl ²⁸

David N. Wiese ¹

M. Willis ²⁹

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Jet propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA USA

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO USA |

Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences University of Texas at Austin Austin TX USA |

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Portland State University Portland OR USA |

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Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington Seattle WA USA |

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Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks AK USA |

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KBR Inc. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Houston TX USA |

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Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology University of Nevada Reno NV USA |

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College of Marine Science University of South Florida St. Petersburg FL USA |

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Department of Earth and Space Sciences University of Washington Seattle WA USA |

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Department of Earth Sciences University of Buffalo Buffalo NY USA |

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Earth SYstem Science Interdisciplinary Center University of Maryland College Park MD USA |

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Department of Geosciences University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst MA USA |

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National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder CO USA |

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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Michigan State University East Lansing MI USA |

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Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences Rutgers University New Brunswick NJ USA |

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Department of Environmental Science and Policy Management University of California, Berkeley Berkeley CA USA |

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Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks College AK USA |

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego La Jolla CA USA

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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University Cambridge MA USA |

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CIRES and CCAR University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO USA |

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Department of Physical Oceanography Institute of Marine Sciences Barcelona Spain |

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Earth System Science University of California, Irvine Irvine CA USA |

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Physical Oceanography Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole MA USA |

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School of Earth and Space Exploration Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA |

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Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services NOAA Silver Spring MD USA |

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Science Mission Directorate NASA Headquarters Washington DC USA |

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Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering and National Center for Integrated Coastal Research University of Central Florida Orlando FL USA |

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CIRES University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO USA |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2020-04-17

American Geophysical Union

Journal: Reviews of Geophysics

scimago Q1

SJR: 8.853

CiteScore: 50.3

Impact factor: 25.2

ISSN: 87551209, 19449208

DOI: 10.1029/2019rg000672

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PubMed ID: 32879921

Geophysics

Abstract

Global sea level provides an important indicator of the state of the warming climate, but changes in regional sea level are most relevant for coastal communities around the world. With improvements to the sea-level observing system, the knowledge of regional sea-level change has advanced dramatically in recent years. Satellite measurements coupled with in situ observations have allowed for comprehensive study and improved understanding of the diverse set of drivers that lead to variations in sea level in space and time. Despite the advances, gaps in the understanding of contemporary sea-level change remain and inhibit the ability to predict how the relevant processes may lead to future change. These gaps arise in part due to the complexity of the linkages between the drivers of sea-level change. Here we review the individual processes which lead to sea-level change and then describe how they combine and vary regionally. The intent of the paper is to provide an overview of the current state of understanding of the processes that cause regional sea-level change and to identify and discuss limitations and uncertainty in our understanding of these processes. Areas where the lack of understanding or gaps in knowledge inhibit the ability to provide the needed information for comprehensive planning efforts are of particular focus. Finally, a goal of this paper is to highlight the role of the expanded sea-level observation network-particularly as related to satellite observations-in the improved scientific understanding of the contributors to regional sea-level change.

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