From Karina (2014 Ocean Sciences p 547): «Our findings show that the area around the Tropical Asian Archipelago (TAA) is important to closing the global sea level budget on interannual to decadal timescales, pointing out that the steric estimate from Argo is biased low, as the current mapping methods are insufficient to recover the steric signal in the TAA region.» (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
In summary: Values of GMSL on the lower end (e.g. 1.1 or 1.2 mm yr - 1) come closest to balancing sea level budgets for the period 1900 — 1990. (judithcurry.com)
A new paper Assessing the Globally Averaged Sea Level Budget on Seasonal and Interannual Time Scales (Willis 2008) displays up - to - date data on ocean heat. (skepticalscience.com)