Climate-induced variability of sea level in Stockholm: Influence of air temperature and atmospheric circulation

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 655-664

  Chen, Deliang ^a,b   Omstedt, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Baltic sea; Sea level; Stockholm; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644446677     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02918709     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Andersson, H. C. 2002: Influence of long-term regional and large-scale atmospheric circulation on the Baltic sea level. Tellus, 54A, 76-88.
2. Blenckner, T., and D. Chen, 2003: Comparison of the impact of regional and North-Atlantic atmospheric circulation on an aquatic ecosystem. Climate Research, 23, 131-136.
3. Busuioc, A., D. Chen, and C. Hellström, 2001: Temporal and spatial variability of precipitation in Sweden and its link with the large scale atmospheric circulation, Tellus, 53A, 348-367.
4. Chen, D. 2000: A monthly circulation climatology for Sweden and its application to a winter temperature case study. International Journal of Climatology, 20, 1067-1076.
5. Chen, D., and C. Hellström, 1999: The influence of the North Atlantic oscillation on the regional temperature variability in Sweden: Spatial and temporal variations, Tellus, 51A, 505-516.
6. Cui, M., H. Storch, and E. Zorita, 1995: Coastal sea level and the large-scale climate state: A downscaling exercise for the Japanese Islands. Tellus, 47A, 132-144.
7. Douglas, B. C., 1992: Global sea level acceleration. J. Geophys. Res., 97(C8), 12 699-12 706.
8. Ekman, M., 1988: The world's longest continued series of sea level observations. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 127, 73-77.
9. Ekman, M., 1996: A consistent map of the postglacial uplift of Fennoscadia. Terra Nova, 8, 158-165.
10. Ekman, M., 1997: Anormalous winter climate coupled to extreme annual means in the Baltic sea level during the last 200 years. Small Publications in Historical Geophysics, 3, 1-14.
11. Ekman, M., 1998: Long-term changes of interannual sea level variability in the Baltic sea and related changes of winter climate. Small Publications in Historical Geophysics, 5, 1-14.
12. Ekman, M., 1999: Climate changes detected through the world's longest sea level series. Global and Planetary Change, 21, 215--224.
13. Ekman, M., and A. Stigebrandt, 1990: Secular change of the seasonal variation in sea level and of the pole tide in the Baltic Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 95(C4), 5379-5383.
14. Emery, K. O., and D. G. Aubrey, 1991: Sea Levels, Land Levels, and Tide Gauges. Springer-Verlag, New York, 237pp.
15. Fairbridge, R. W., and S. Jelgersma, 1990: Sea level. Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought, R. Paepe et al., Eds., Kluwer Publishers, Dordrecht, 117-143.
16. Gornitz, V., 1993: Mean sea level changes in the recent past. Climate and Sea Level Change: Observations, Projections and Implications, R. A. Warrick et al, Eds, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 25-44.
17. Gustafsson, B. G., and H. C. Andersson, 2001: Modeling the exchange of the Baltic Sea from the meridional atmospheric pressure difference across the North Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 106(C9), 19 731-19 744.
18. Hellström, C., D. Chen, Ch. Achberger, and J. Räisänen, 2001: A comparison of climate change scenarios for Sweden based on statistical and dynamical downscaling of monthly precipitation. Climate Research, 19, 45-55.
19. Heyen, H., E. Zorita, and H. Storch, 1996: Statistical downscaling of monthly mean North Atlantic airpressure to sea level anomalies in the Baltic Sea. Tellus, 48A, 312-323.
20. IPCC, 2001: Climate Change 2001 - The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, J. T. Houghton et al., Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and New York, USA, 881 pp.
21. Jacobeit, J., H. Wanner, J. Luterbacher, C. Beek, A. Philipp, and K. Sturm, 2003: Atmospheric circulation variability in the North-Atlantic-European area since the mid-seventeenth century. Climate Dyn., 20, 341-352.
22. Jones, P. D., 1994: Hemispheric surface air temperature variations: A reanalysis and an update to 1993. J. Climate, 7, 1794-1802.
23. Nerem, R. S., B. J. Haines, J. Hendricks, J. F. Minister, G. T. Mitchum, and W. B. White, 1997: Improved determination of global mean sea level variations using TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1331-1334.
24. Omstedt, A., C. Pettersen, J. Rodhe, and P. Winsor, 2004a: Baltic Sea climate: 200 years of data on air temperature, sea-level variation,ice extent, and atmospheric circulation. Climate Research, 25, 205-216.
25. Omstedt, A., J. Elken, A. Lehmann, and J. Piechura, 2004b: Knowledge of the Baltic Sea Physics gained during the BALTEX and related programmes. Progress in Oceanography, 63, 1-28.
26. Omstedt, A., and D. Chen, 2001: Influence of atmospheric circulation on the maximum ice extent in the Baltic Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 106(C3), 4493-4500.
27. Plag, H.-P., and M. N. Tsimplis, 1999: Temporal variability of the seasonal sealevel cycle in the North Sea and Baltic Sea in relation to climate variability. Global and Planeatry Change, 20, 173-203.
28. Samuelsson, M., and A. Stigebrandt, 1996: Main characteristics of the long-term sea level variability in the Baltic Sea. Tellus, 48A, 672-683.
29. Stigebrandt, A., 1980: Barotropic and baroclinic response of a semi-enclosed basin to barotropic forcing from the sea. Fjord Oceanography, H. J. Freeland, D. M. Farmer, and C. D. Levings, Eds, Plenum, New Yourk, 151-164.
30. Stigebrandt, A., 2001: Physical Oceanography of the Baltic Sea. Chapter 2, A Systems Analysis of the Baltic Sea, F. Wulff, L. Rahm, and P. Larsson, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, 19-74.
31. Titus, J. G., and V. Narayanan, 1996: The Risk of Sea Level Rise. Climatic Change, 33, 151-212.
32. Tsimplis, M. N., and P. L. Woodworth, 1994: The global distribution of the seasonal sea level cycle calculated from coastal tide gauge data. J. Geophys. Res., 99(C8), 16 031-16 039.
33. Wroblewski, A., 1998a: The effect of the North sea on oscillations of the mean monthly sea levels in theBaltic sea. Cont. Shelf Res., 18, 501-514.
34. Wroblewski, A., 1998b: Inter-annual oscillations of Baltic water volumes and sea levels. Oceanologia, 40(3), 1-21.