Book section

2010

English

http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00087/19846/17496.pdf (Author's final draft, 3.23 Mo)

2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Le Traon Pierre-Yves

Understanding Sea-Level Rise and Variability

Ocean temperature and salinity contributions - global and regional sea-level changes, oceans, central component of climate systems - storing, transporting quantities of heat, expendable bathythermograph (XBT) - and upper-ocean temperature profiles, World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) - quality, global, top- to bottom survey of ocean temperature and salinity, estimating steric sea-level change - using ocean syntheses, Simple Ocean Data Analysis (SODA) model, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission, 20th-century climate and project 21st-century climate simulations - using coupled AOGCMs, coupled AOGCMs, mechanisms behind - global average and regional sea-level changes, increased spatial resolution, in resolving continental shelves and semi-enclosed seas

This chapter contains sections titled:

Introduction

Direct Estimates of Steric Sea-Level Rise

Estimating Steric Sea-Level Change Using Ocean Syntheses

Inferring Steric Sea Level from Time-Variable Gravity and Sea Level

Modeling Steric Sea-Level Rise

Conclusions and Recommendations

Acknowledgments

References