G31B:
Variability and Projection of Regional and Global Mean Sea Level Change II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Philip R Thompson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Benjamin D Hamlington, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Philip R Thompson, JIMAR, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
Co-conveners:  Benjamin D Hamlington, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Felix W Landerer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Felix W Landerer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Two Decades of Global and Regional Sea Level Observations from the ESA Climate Change Initiative Sea Level Project
Jerome Benveniste1, Gilles Larnicol2, Anny A Cazenave3, Michael Ablain2, Jean-François Legeais2, Yannice Faugère2, Bruno Lucas4, Salvatore Dinardo5, Johnny A Johannessen6, Detlef Stammer7, Gary Timms8, Per Knudsen9, Paolo Cipollini10, Mònica Roca11, Sergei Rudenko12, Joana Fernandes13, Magdalena Balmaseda14, Graham Quartly15, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc16 and Thierry Guinle17, (1)ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, (2)CLS, Toulouse, France, (3)LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (4)ESA ESRIN, DEIMOS, Frascati, Italy, (5)ESA ESRIN, SERCO, Frascati, Italy, (6)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway, (7)University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, (8)CGI, Leatherhead, United Kingdom, (9)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (10)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (11)isardSAT, Barcelona, Spain, (12)GFZ, Wessling, Germany, (13)University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, (14)ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom, (15)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (16)Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, (17)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
8:15 AM
 
An Overview of the Science Activities of the NASA Sea Level Change Team (N-SLCT)
R Steven Nerem, Univ of CO-Aerospace Egrg Sci, Boulder, CO, United States
8:30 AM
 
Deep Ocean Contribution to Sea Level and Energy Budget Not Detectable over the Past Decade
William Llovel, JPL/NASA, Pasadena, CA, United States, Josh K Willis, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, Felix W Landerer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Ichiro Fukumori, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
8:45 AM
 
Long-term Sea-level Change Revisited: The Role of Salinity
Paul James Durack1,2, Susan Anne Wijffels2 and Peter J Gleckler1, (1)LLNL/PCMDI, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere Flagship, Hobart, Australia
9:00 AM
 
Projections of extreme water level events for atolls in the western Tropical Pacific
Mark A Merrifield1, Janet M Becker1, Murray Ford2 and Yu Yao1, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
9:15 AM
 
Two Probabilistic Methods for Attributing the Sources of Sea-Level Rise from Sparse Tide Gauge Records
Carling Hay1,2, Eric Morrow1,2, Robert E Kopp III2 and Jerry X Mitrovica1, (1)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
9:30 AM
 
Partitioning Regional Sea Level in the Bay of Bengal from a Global Grace and Jason-1/-2 Joint Inversion
Bernd Uebbing, Juergen Kusche and Roelof Rietbroek, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
9:45 AM
 
Regional and global rates of ocean mass addition between 1996-2006 from a full depth sea level rise budget
Sarah G Purkey, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Gregory C Johnson, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Don P Chambers, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States
 
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