Ocean Temperature and Salinity Contributions to Global and Regional Sea-Level Change (Chapter 6)

Type Book section
Date 2010
Language English
Contributor(s) Le Traon Pierre-Yves
Book Understanding Sea-Level Rise and Variability
Keyword(s) 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
Abstract 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
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(2010) Ocean Temperature and Salinity Contributions to Global and Regional Sea-Level Change (Chapter 6). In Understanding Sea-Level Rise and Variability (eds J. A. Church, P. L. Woodworth, T. Aarup and W. S. Wilson). https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00087/19846/