Quantifying anthropogenic and natural contributions to thermosteric sea level rise

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2502-2507

  Marcos, Marta ^a   Amores, Angel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

anthropogenic forcing; climate models; CMIP5; thermosteric sea level

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ANTHROPOGENIC ORIGIN; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NATURAL VARIABILITY; THERMOSTERIC SEA LEVEL;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84899034015     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059766     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. AchutaRao, K. M., M. Ishii, B. D. Santer, P. J. Gleckler, K. E. Taylor, T. P. Barnett, D. W. Pierce, R. J. Stouffer, and, T. M. L. Wigley, (2007), Simulated and observed variability in ocean temperature and heat content, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 104 (26), 10,768-10,773.
2. Barnett, T. P., D. W. Pierce, K. M. AchutaRao, P. J. Gleckler, B. D. Santer, J. M. Gregory, and, W. M. Washington, (2005), Penetration of human-induced warming into the world's oceans, Science, 309, 284-287.
3. Chang, P., R. Saravanan, L. Ji, and, G. C. Hegerl, (2000), The effect of local Sea surface temperatures on atmospheric circulation over the tropical Atlantic sector, J. Clim., 13, 2195-2216.
4. Church, J. A., et al. (2013), Sea level change, in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by, T. F. Stocker, et al., pp. 1137-1216, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K., and New York.
5. Gille, S. T., (2008), Decadal-scale temperature trends in the southern hemisphere ocean, J. Clim., 21, 4749-4765, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2131.1.
6. Gleckler, P. J., B. D. Santer, C. M. Domingues, D. W. Pierce, T. P. Barnett, J. A. Church, K. E. Taylor, K. M. AchutaRao, T. P. Boyer, and, P. M. Caldwell, (2012), Human-induced global ocean warming on multidecadal timescales, Nat. Clim. Change, 2, 524-529.
7. Gregory, J. M., et al. (2013), Climate models without preindustrial volcanic forcing underestimate historical ocean thermal expansion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 1600-1604, doi: 10.1002/grl.50339.
8. Ishii, M., and, M. Kimoto, (2009), Reevaluation of historical ocean heat content variations with time-varying XBT and MBT depth bias corrections, J. Oceanogr., 65, 287-299.
9. Kelley, C., M. Ting, R. Seager, and, Y. Kushnir, (2011), The relative contributions of radiative forcing and internal climate variability to the late 20th century winter drying of the Mediterranean region, Clim. Dyn., 38 (9-10), 2001-2015, doi: 10.1007/s00382-011-1221-z.
10. Levitus, S., et al. (2012), World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0-2000-m), 1955-2010, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L10603, doi: 10.1029/2012GL051106.
11. Llovel, W., I. Fukumori, and, B. Meyssignac, (2013), Depth-dependent temperature change contributions to global mean thermosteric sea level rise from 1960 to 2010, Global Planet. Change, 101, 113-118.
12. Miller, L., and, B. C. Douglas, (2004), Mass and volume contributions to twentieth-century global sea level rise, Nature, 428, 406-409.
13. Pierce, D. W., P. J. Gleckler, T. P. Barnett, B. D. Santer, and, P. J. Durack, (2012), The fingerprint of human induced changes in the ocean's salinity and temperature fields, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L21704, doi: 10.1029/2012GL053389.
14. Sedláček, J., and, R. Knutti, (2012), Evidence for external forcing on 20th-century climate from combined ocean-atmosphere warming patterns, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L20708, doi: 10.1029/2012GL053262.
15. Stammer, D., A. Cazenave, R. M. Ponte, and, M. E. Tamisiea, (2013), Causes for contemporary regional sea level changes, Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci., 5, 21-46.
16. Taylor, K. E., R. J. Stouffer, and, G. A. Meehl, (2012), An overview of the CMIP5 and the experiment design, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 93, 485-498.
17. Venzke, S., M. R. Allen, R. T. Sutton, and, D. P. Rowell, (1999), The atmospheric response over the North Atlantic to decadal changes in sea surface temperature, J. Clim., 12, 2562-2584.