PC13A:
Causes of Contemporary Sea Level Variability and Change from Global to Coastal Scales I


Session ID#: 36859

Session Description:
Quantitative understanding of the causes of sea level variability and change is important for the development of improved sea level projections and forecasts and assessment of related coastal impacts. This session seeks modeling and data analyses that address causes of sea level variability and change on timescales of months to centuries, at the local, regional and global levels. Of particular interest are studies that advance understanding of the connections between the large-scale ocean circulation and coastal sea level, including how climate modes of variability project onto the coastal zone. Other topics of interest include the mass and steric contributions to sea level budgets and their underlying forcing mechanisms and dynamics involving air-sea-ice interactions, and the attribution of regional sea level change to natural and anthropogenic causes.
Primary Chair:  Rui M Ponte, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Benoit Meyssignac, Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, Catia M Domingues, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia and Detlef Stammer, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Moderators:  Catia M Domingues, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Donata Giglio, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Christopher M Little, Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Rui M Ponte, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States
Index Terms:

1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4556 Sea level: variations and mean [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • RS - Regional Studies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Rapid sea level ‘burst’ events in the global mass balance record (314659)
John T Reager II, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
High-resolution, global ice sheet/RSL simulations using the higher-order Ice Sheet System Model. (304611)
Eric Y Larour1, Erik Roman Ivins2, Surendra Adhikari3, Lambert Caron1, Nicole Schlegel4, Helene L Seroussi1 and Mathieu Morlighem5, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Caltech/JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Trends in Regional Sea Level Rise in the 20th Century (317684)
Alessandra Burgos1, Benjamin Hamlington1, Philip R Thompson2, Felix W Landerer3 and Surendra Adhikari4, (1)Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, (2)JIMAR, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Quantifying Coastal Sea Level Variability Around the UK. (317543)
Jonathan Tinker1, Matthew D Palmer1, Tom Howard2 and Jason A. Lowe1, (1)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office, United Kingdom
Low frequency variabiblity of the Patagonian shelf Sea Surface Height variability: Local vs Remote Forcing (304581)
Vincent Combes, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Ricardo P Matano, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States
Nuisance flooding in Honolulu, HI during the 21st century (323288)
Philip R Thompson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, Mark Merrifield, University of California San Diego, Integrative Oceanography Division, La Jolla, CA, United States, Matthew J Widlansky, University of Hawaii at Manoa, JIMAR, Honolulu, HI, United States, Janet M Becker, Univ of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and John J Marra, NOAA Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, United States
Projected Sea Level Rise, Gyre Circulation and Water Mass Formation in the Western North Pacific: CMIP5 Inter-model Analysis (308335)
Mio Terada and Shoshiro Minobe, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Varieties of Wind Effects on Tropical Pacific Decadal Sea-Surface Height Variability (306436)
Christopher G Piecuch, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Philip R Thompson, JIMAR, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Rui M Ponte, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States and Mark A Merrifield, Sch Ocean & Earth Sci & Tech, Honolulu, HI, United States

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