Sentences with phrase «sea level response»

Together these influences drove exceptional moisture transports into the continent's interior (Fig. 3a) and were likely responsible for one of the wettest intervals in Australia's recorded history, the intensity and persistence of its terrestrial storage anomaly, and a considerable fraction of the global sea level response.

The imprint of SAM variability on the Southern Ocean system is observed as a coherent sea level response around Antarctica (Aoki, 2002; Hughes et al., 2003) and by its regulation of Antarctic Circumpolar Current flow through the Drake Passage (Meredith et al., 2004).

The long term sea level response after 2000 years is estimated as 1 to 3m per degree C of warming.

I think that the main point is that non-expert expectations of sea level response are incredibly naive - you need to understand all the factors that affect relative sea level at any particular site.

At the ocean surface, the sea level response to barometric pressure is theoretically 10 mm per hectopascal change in mean pressure (See Gill, A.E., 1982, Atmosphere - ocean dynamics: San Diego, Academic Press, Inc., 662 p. for a derivation).