Sentences with phrase «continental water storage»

However, this hypothesis currently has three complications: underestimation of continental water storage and its confusion with minor lake and river water volume with respect to sea - level change equivalent (< 1 m) 2,30,33; lack of direct evidence of continental water storage from the geological record; and poorly understood mechanisms and timescales of aquifer eustasy27, 28,31,32,34.

An alternative model that 105 to 106 year scale variations in continental water storage significantly changes the land — ocean water mass balance, led to the hypothesis of «groundwater - driven eustasy», termed «aquifer eustasy» 3,27,28,29,30,31 or «limno - eustasy» 32,33.

The relationship between spatial pattern of continental water storage and the interannual (east - west) wobble in Earth's spin axis.

While there may be a good case for attributing Greenland's or Antarctica's ice loss to human induced climate change — even though the paper itself does not do so — the changes in continental water storage, which also play an important role in the result, are tougher to attribute.

Not exact matches

Adding together the observed individual components of sea level rise (thermal expansion of the ocean water, loss of continental ice from ice sheets and mountain glaciers, terrestrial water storage) now is in reasonable agreement with the observed total sea - level rise.