High-frequency sea-level analysis: Global distributions

Towards a global higher-frequency sea level dataset

P. L. Woodworth* , J. R. Hunter, M. Marcos, P. Caldwell, M. Men endez and I. Haigh National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool L3 5DA, UK Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC), 07190 Esporles, Balearic Islands, Spain Joint Archive for Sea Level, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA...

Global sea level linked to global temperature.

We propose a simple relationship linking global sea-level variations on time scales of decades to centuries to global mean temperature. This relationship is tested on synthetic data from a global climate model for the past millennium and the next century. When applied to observed data of sea level and temperature for 1880-2000, and taking into account known anthropogenic hydrologic contribution...

GIS Analysis of Global Impacts from Sea Level Rise

Future sea level rise caused by climate change would disrupt the physical processes, economic activities, and social systems in coastal regions. Based on a hypothetical global sea level increase of one to six meters, we developed GIS methods to assess and visualize the global impacts of potential inundation using the best available global datasets. After susceptible areas were delineated, we es...

Analysis of Frequency Distributions

Low-frequency Atlantic sea level variability

The control run of the Hadley Centre-coupled climate model (HadCM3) is used to establish the sources of multidecadal/ centennial sea level (SL) variations in the northwest Atlantic. It is shown that variations in the sea level for the largest part of this area are related to variations in the thermohaline structure of the upper (c 500 m) part of the ocean. Temperature variations dominate steric...