References

Recent presentations at OSTST meeting

OSTST 2022

• Guérou et al., CNES/Aviso New GMSL L2P21 record, 10.24400/527896/a03-2022.3408

OSTST 2020

• Guérou et al., Revised uncertainties of the Global Mean Sea Level biases between the TOPEX & Jasons reference missions
• Prandi et al., Local sea level trends, accelerations, and uncertainties

OSTST 2019

• Prandi et al., Uncertainty in Satellite estimate of Regional Mean Sea Level trends

OSTST 2017

• The TOPEX-A Drift and Impacts on GMSL Time Series (poster), Ablain M., R. Jugier, L. Zawadki, and N. Taburet. 

OSTST 2013

• Global and regional past sea level from an ensemble of 2D reconstruction (poster), B. Meyssignac et al. 

OSTST 2012

Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry Data (Part I)

Others

• • The TOPEX-A Drift and Impacts on GMSL Time Series (poster), Ablain M., R. Jugier, L. Zawadki, and N. Taburet. 
  • Global and regional past sea level from an ensemble of 2D reconstruction (poster), B. Meyssignac et al. 
  • Investigating and reducing the differences between the satellite altimetry-based Global Mean Sea Level time series provided by the different processing groups
    Anny Cazenave (LEGOS)
  • Error characterization of the global and regional Mean Sea Level evolution for climate applications
    Michaël Ablain
  • Reconstruction of global sea level variations from tide gauges and altimetry (poster), M. Wenzel et al. 

 

Scientific literature

Articles can easily be accessed by clicking on the DOIs (Digital Object Identifier). To learn more about DOIs, click here.

2023

• Guérou, A., Meyssignac, B., Prandi, P., Ablain, M., Ribes, A., and Bignalet-Cazalet, F.: Current observed global mean sea level rise and acceleration estimated from satellite altimetry and the associated measurement uncertainty, Ocean Sci., 19, 431–451, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-431-2023, 2023.

2021

• Prandi P, Meyssignac B, Ablain M, Spada G, Ribes A, Benveniste J (2021). Local sea level trends, accelerations and uncertainties over 1993-2019. Scientific Data, 8(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-00786-7

2019

• Ablain M, Meyssignac B, Zawadzki L, Jugier R, Ribes A, Spada G, Benveniste J, Cazenave A, Picot N (2019). Uncertainty in satellite estimates of global mean sea-level changes, trend and acceleration. Earth System Science Data, 11: 1189–1202. DOI: 10.5194/essd-11-1189-2019

2018

• Ablain M., R. Jugier, N. Picot. (2018). Estimation of any Altimeter Mean Seal Level Drifts between 1993 and 2017 by Comparison with Tide-gauges Measurements. Presented at International Review Workshop on Satellite Altimetry Cal/Val Activities and Applications 2018.

• Legeais, J.-F., Ablain, M., Zawadzki, L., Zuo, H., Johannessen, J. A., Scharffenberg, M. G., Fenoglio-Marc, L., Fernandes, M. J., Andersen, O. B., Rudenko, S., Cipollini, P., Quartly, G. D., Passaro, M., Cazenave, A., and Benveniste, J. (2018). An improved and homogeneous altimeter sea level record from the ESA Climate Change Initiative. Earth System Science Data, 10, 281-301. DOI: 10.5194/essd-10-281-2018

• Nerem, R. S., Beckley, B. D., Fasullo, J. T., Hamlington, B. D., Masters, D., & Mitchum, G. T. (2018). Climate-change-driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201717312. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1717312115

2017

• Ablain, M., Legeais, J. F., Prandi, P., Marcos, M., Fenoglio-Marc, L., Dieng, H. B., Benveniste, J., Cazenave, A. (2017). Satellite altimetry-based sea level at global and regional scales. In: Cazenave A., Champollion N., Paul F., Benveniste J. (eds) Integrative Study of the Mean Sea Level and Its Components. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, vol 58. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56490-6_2

• Beckley, B. D., Callahan, P. S., Hancock, D. W., Mitchum, G. T., & Ray, R. D. (2017). On the "Cal-Mode" Correction to TOPEX Satellite Altimetry and Its Effect on the Global Mean Sea Level Time Series. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122(11), 8371-8384. DOI: 10.1002/2017JC013090

• Chen, X., Zhang, X., Church, J. A., Watson, C. S., King, M. A., Monselesan, D., Legresy, B., Harig, C. (2017). The increasing rate of global mean sea-level rise during 1993–2014. Nature Climate Change, 7, 492-495. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3325

• Dieng, H. B., Cazenave, A., Meyssignac, B., & Ablain, M. (2017). New estimate of the current rate of sea level rise from a sea level budget approach. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(8), 3744-3751. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL073308

• Escudier, P., Couhert, A., Mercier, F., Mallet, A., Thibaut, P., Tran, N., Amarouche, L., Picard, B., Carrère, L., Dibarboure, G., Ablain, M., Richard, J., Steunou, N., Dubois, P., Rio, M. H., and Dorandeu, J. (2017). Satellite radar altimetry: principle, geophysical correction and orbit, accuracy and precision, in: Satellite Altimetry Over Oceans and Land Surfaces, edited by: Stammer, D. and Cazenave, A., CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton

2016

• Zawadzki, L., & Ablain, M. (2016). Accuracy of the mean sea level continuous record with future altimetric missions: Jason-3 vs. Sentinel-3a. Ocean Science, 12(1), 9-18. DOI: 10.5194/osd-12-1511-2015

2015

• Ablain, M., Cazenave, A., Larnicol, G., Balmaseda, M., Cipollini, P., Faugère, Y., Fernandes, M. J., Henry, O., Johannessen, J. A., Knudsen, P., Andersen, O., Legeais, J., Meyssignac, B., Picot, N., Roca, M., Rudenko, S., Scharffenberg, M. G., Stammer, D., Timms, G., and Benveniste, J. (2015). Improved sea level record over the satellite altimetry era (1993-2010) from the Climate Change Initiative project. Ocean Science, 11(1), 67-82. DOI: 10.5194/os-11-67-2015

• Couhert, A., Cerri, L., Legeais, J. F., Ablain, M., Zelensky, N. P., Haines, B. J., Lemoine, F.G., Bertiger, W.I., Desai, S.D., Otten, M. (2015). Towards the 1 mm/y stability of the radial orbit error at regional scales. Advances in Space Research, 55(1), 2-23. DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2014.06.041

• Watson, C. S., White, N. J., Church, J. A., King, M. A., Burgette, R. J., & Legresy, B. (2015). Unabated global mean sea-level rise over the satellite altimeter era. Nature Climate Change, 5(6), 565. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2635

2013

• Cazenave A. and Le Cozannet G. (2013). Sea level rise and coastal impacts, Earth's future

• Dieng H.B., Henry O., Messignac B., Cazenave A., von Schuckmann K. and Lemoine J.M. (2013). Signature of La Nina in the global mean sea level; Differences between the 2007 and 2011 La Nina events, Global and Planetary Change

• Gardner, A. S., Moholdt, G., Cogley, J. G., Wouters, B., Arendt, A. A., Wahr, J., Berthier, E., Hock, R.,Pfeffer, W.T., Kaser, G., Ligtenberg, S. R. M., Bolch, T., Sharp, M. J., Hagen, J. O., Van den Broeke, M. R., and Paul, F. (2013). A Reconciled Estimate of Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise: 2003 to 2009; Science, vol. 340

• Henry O., Ablain M., Meyssignac B., Cazenave A., Masters D., Nerem S., Leuliette E. and Garric G. (2013). Investigating and reducing differences between the satellite altimetry-based global mean sea level time series provided by different processing groups, in revision,J. of Geodesy

• Hollmann R. et al. (including Cazenave) (2013). The ESA Climate Change Initiative: satellite data records for essential climate variables Bull. American Meteo. Soc., doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254., online publication March

• Le Cozannet G., Garcin M., Petitjean L., Cazenave A., Becker M., Meyssignac B., Walker P., Devilliers C., Lebrun O., Lecacheux S., Baills A., Bulteau T., Yates M., Wöppelmann G. (2013). Exploring the relation between sea level rise and shoreline erosion using reconstructions: an example in French Polynesia, in press, J. Coastal Research, 65, doi: 10.2112/SI65-361.1

• Palanisamy H., Cazenave A., Meyssignac B., Woppelmann G. and Soudarin L. (2013). Regional sea level variability, total relative sea level rise and its impacts on islands and coastal zones of Indian Ocean over the last sixty years, Global Planetary Change

• Peng D., Palanisamy H., Cazenave A. and Meyssignac B. (2013). Sea level change and variability in the South China Sea over 1950-2009, Marine Geodesy, 36:2,164-182, doi:10.1080/01490419. 2013.771595

• Stammer D., Cazenave A., Ponte R. and Tamisiea M. (2013). Contemporary regional sea level changes, Annual Review Marine Sciences, 5, 21-46

• Woppelmann G., Le Cozannet G., de Michele M., Raucoules D., Cazenave A., Garcin M, Hanson S, Marcos M. and Santamaría-Gómez A (2013). Is land subsidence increasing the exposure to sea level rise in Alexandria, Egypt? Geophys. Res. Lett., vol 40, 1-5, doi:10.1002/grl.50568

2012

• Ablain, M., Philipps, S., Urvoy, M., Tran, N., & Picot, N. (2012). Detection of long-term instabilities on altimeter backscatter coefficient thanks to wind speed data comparisons from altimeters and models. Marine Geodesy, 35(sup1), 258-275. DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2012.718675

• Becker M., Meyssignac B., Llovel W., Cazenave A. and Delcroix T. (2012). Sea level variations at Tropical Pacific Islands during 1950-2009. Global and Planetary Change, 80/81, 85-98.

• Cazenave A., O. Henry, S. Munier, B. Meyssignac, T. Delcroix, W. Llovel and H. Palanisamy (2012). Estimating ENSO influence on the global mean sea level, Marine Geodesy

• Crétaux J.F., Bergé-Nguyen M., Meyssignac B., Calmant S., Romanovski V., Perosanz F., Tashbaeva S., Arsen A., Fund F., Martignago N., Bonnefond P., Laurain O., MaisongrandeP. (2012)., Calibration of Envisat altimeter over the Lake Issykkul. Marine Geodesy

• Fenoglio-Marc L., A. Mariotti, G. Sannino, B. Meyssignac, A. Carillo, M.V. Struglia (2012). Decadal variability of net water flux at the Mediterranean sea Gibraltar strait. Global and Planetary Change

• Henry O., P. Prandi, W. Llovel, A. Cazenave, S. Jevrejeva, D. Stammer, B. Meyssignac, N. Koldunov (2012)., Sea level variations since 1950 along the coasts of the Arctic Ocean, inrevision, J. Geophys. Res.

• Meyssignac B. (2012). La Variabilité Régionale du Niveau de la Mer. Thèse de l'Université de Toulouse.

• Meyssignac B., Llovel W., Becker M. and Cazenave A. (2012a). An assessment of two-dimensional past sea level reconstructions over 1950 -2009 based on tide gauge data and different input sea level grids,Surveys in Geophysics,published online 2012 /01/24,doi:10.1007/s10712-011-9171-x.

• Meyssignac B., Salas y Melia D.,Becker M.,Llovel W., Cazenave A. (2012b). Tropical Pacific spatial trend patterns in observed sea level: internal variability and/or anthropogenic signature? Clim. Past, 8, 787-802,2012, doi:10.5194/cp-8-787-2012

• Meyssignac B. and Cazenave A. (2012). Sea level : a review of present-day and recent-past sea level change and variability (invited review article),J. Geodyn., 58, 96-109, doi:10.1016/j.jog. 2012.03.005.

• Meyssignac B., Salas-Melia D, Becker M, Llovel W. and Cazenave A. (2012). Spatial trend patterns in observed sea level: internal variability and/or anthropogenic signature? Climate of the Past

• Palanisamy H., Becker M., Meyssignac B. and Cazenave A. (2012). Regional Sea Level Change and Variability in the Caribbean Sea since 1950, Int. J. Geosci., 2(2), 125-133, doi:10.2478/v10156-011-0029-4

• Prandi P. (2012). Variabilité du niveau de la mer dans la région Arctique. Thèse de l'Université de Toulouse.

• Prandi P. Ablain M., Cazenave A. and Picot N. (2012). A new estimation of mean sea level in the Arctic Ocean from satellite altimetry, 35(S1), 61-81, Marine Geodesy

• Rahmstorf S., Foster G. and Cazenave A. (2012). Comparing climate projections to observations : an update; Environmental Res. Lett., 7, 044035, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044035.

• Shepherd A., et al. (2012). A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance.Science30 November 2012 Vol. 338 no. 6111 pp. 1183-1189 doi: 10.1126/science.1228102.

• Valladeau, G., Legeais, J. F., Ablain, M., Guinehut, S., & Picot, N. (2012). Comparing altimetry with tide gauges and Argo profiling floats for data quality assessment and mean sea level studies. Marine Geodesy, 35(sup1), 42-60. DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2012.718226

2011

• Berthier E., Vincent C., Durand G., Krinner G. (2011). Bilan de masse des glaciers et des calottes polaires. Jeandel C., Mosseri R. (Eds.): Le climat à découvert. Outils et méthodes en recherche climatique. CNRS Edition

• Biancamaria S., Cazenave A., Mognard N., LLovel W. and Frappart F. (2011). Satellite-based high latitudes snow volume trend, variability and contribution to sea level over 1989/2006, Global and Planet. Change, 75, 99-107, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha2010.10.011

• Cazenave, A., F. Remy (2011). Sea level and climate: measurements and causes of changes,Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2(5), 647-662, doi:10.1002/wcc.139.

• Church, J.A., N.J. White, L.F. Konikow, C.M. Domingues, J.G. Cogley, E. Rignot, J.M. Gregory, M.R. van den Broeke, A.J. Monaghan, and I. Velicogna (2011). Revisiting the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008,Geophys.Res. Lett., 38, L18601, doi:10.1029/2011GL048794.

• Hamlington B.D., Leben, R., Nerem, S., Han, W., Kim, K.Y. (2011). Reconstructing sea level using cyclostationary empirical orthogonal functions, J. Geophys.Res., doi: 10.1029/2011JC00752.

• Llovel W., Becker M., Cazenave A., Jevrejeva S., Alkama R., Decharme B., Douville H., Ablain M. and Beckley B. (2011). Terrestrial waters and sea level variations on interannual time scale, Global Planet. Change, 75, 76-82, doi.10.1016/j.gloplacha2010.10.008

• Llovel W, Meyssignac B, Cazenave A (2011). Steric sea level variations over 2004-2010 as a function of region and depth: Inference on the mass component variability in the North Atlantic Ocean. Geophys. Research Letters, Vol. 38, L15608, doi:10.1029/2011GL047411

• Marcos M., Calafat F. M., Llovel W., Gomis D., Meyssignac B. (2011). Regional distribution of steric and mass contributions to sea level changes. Global and Planetary Change. 3/4:206-218. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.01.007

• Meyssignac B., Calafat F., Somot S., Rupolo V., Stocchi P., Llovel W. and Cazenave A. (2011). Two-dimensional reconstruction of the Mediterranean sea level over 1970 - 2006 from tide gauge data and regional ocean circulation model outputs, Global Planet. Change, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.03.002

• Meyssignac B., Francesc M. C., Somot S., Rupolo V., Stocchi P, Llovel W. Cazenave A., Morrow R. (2011). Two-dimensional reconstruction of the Mediterranean sea level over 1970 - 2006 from tide gauge data and regional ocean circulation model outputs.Global and Planetary Change,77 pp49-61.

• Pfeffer, W.T. (2011). Land ice and sea level rise: A thirty-year perspective, Oceanography, 24(2), 94-111, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2011.30.

• Prandi P., Ablain M., Picot N., Cazenave A. (2011). Sea Level in the Arctic Ocean from Satellite Altimetry. Presentation at the Cryosat validation workshop. February 2011.(pdf)

• Ray, R. and Douglas, B. (2011). Experiments in reconstructing twentieth-century sea levels, Progress in Oceanography

• Rignot E., Velicogna I., van den Broeke M.R., Monaghan A. and Lenaerts J. (2011). Acceleration of he contribution of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to sea level rise,Geophys.Res. Lett., 38, L05503.

• Sutton, P., and D. Roemmich (2011). Decadal steric and sea surface height changes in the Southern Hemisphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L08604, doi:10.1029/2011GL046802.

• Tamisiea, M.E., and J.X. Mitrovica (2011). The moving boundaries of sea level change: Understanding the origins of geographic variability. Oceanography24(2):24-39, DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2011.25

2010

• Ablain M., Lombard A., Picot N., Cazenave A. (2010). Error Estimation of the global and local mean sea level trends from Jason-1,2 and T/P data. Communication at OceanSciences symposium, 22-26 Feb. 2010, Portland (pdf, 2Mo).

• Cazenave A., Chambers D., Cippolini P., Fu L.L., Hurell J., Merrifield M., Nerem S., Plag H.P., Shum C.K. and Willis J. (2010). Sea level change : global and regional trends, plenary paper, Published in the Proceedings of OceanObs'09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society (Vol. 1), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison, D.E., Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306. doi:10.5270/OceanObs09ESA publication.

• Cazenave A. and Llovel W. (2010). Contemporary sea level rise, Annual Review of Marine Sciences, 2, 145-173. doi: 10.1146/annurev-marine-120308-081105

• Llovel W, Guinehut S and Cazenave A (2010). Regional and interannual variability in sea level over 2002-2009 based on satellite altimetry, Argo float data and Grace ocean mass,Ocean Dynamics, 60,1193-1204.doi: 10.1007/s10236-010-0324-0.

• Llovel W (2010), Hausse du niveau de la mer et changement climatique global, Thèse de l'Université de Toulouse (download the pdf from the University website).

• Llovel W., M. Becker, Cazenave A. and Crétaux J.F. (2010). Contribution of land water storage change to global mean sea level from GRACE and satellite altimetry, C.R. Geosciences, 342, 179-188

• Lyman J.M., Godd S.A., Gouretski V.V., Ishii M., Johnson G.C., Palmer M.D., Smith D.M., Willis J.K. (2010). Robust warming of the global upper ocean,Nature, 465:334-337. doi:10.1038/nature09043.

• Milly P.C.D., Cazenave A., Famiglietti J., Gornitz V., Laval K., et al. (2010). Terrestrial water storage contributions to sea level rise and variability. In Proceedings of the WCRP Workshop: Understanding Sea Level Rise and Variability, ed. J Church, et al. Malden, MA: Blackwell

• Nicholls R.J, Cazenave A (2010). Sea-Level Rise and Its Impact on Coastal Zones. Science, 18 June 2010 :Vol. 328. no. 5985, pp. 1517 - 1520. doi: 10.1126/science.1185782

• Roemmich D., J. Willis, J. Gilson, D. Stammer, A. Koehl, T. Yemenis, D. P. Chambers, F. Landerer, J. Marotzke, T. Suzuki, J. Church, A. Cazenave and P. Y Letraon (2010). Global Ocean Warming and Sea Level Rise Proceedings of the WCRP workshop 'Understanding sea level rise and variability', eds. J. Church, P. Woodworth, T. Aarup and S. Wilson et al., Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

• Steffen K. et al. (2010). Cryospheric contributions to sea level rise and variability, inUnderstanding sea level rise and variability, J. Church, P. L. Woodworth, T. Aarup, and S. Wilson, Eds., Blackwell Publishing.

• Book:Understanding sea level rise and variability, J. Church, P. Woodworth, T. Aarup and W. S. Wilson et al., Editors, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

2009

• Ablain, M., Cazenave, A., Valladeau, G., & Guinehut, S. (2009). A new assessment of the error budget of global mean sea level rate estimated by satellite altimetry over 1993-2008. Ocean Science, 5(2), 193-201. DOI: 10.5194/os-5-193-2009

• Cazenave A, Dominh K, Guinehut S, Berthier E, Llovel W, et al. (2009). Sea level budget over 2003-2008: A reevaluation from GRACE space gravimetry, satellite altimetry and Argo. Glob. Planet. Change 65:83-88,doi:10.1016/j/gloplacha.2008.10.004

• Cazenave A., Guinehut S., Ramillien G., Llovel W., DoMinh K., Ablain M., Larnicol G. and Lombard A., 2009. Sea level budget over 2003-2008; a reevalution from satellite altimetry, GRACE and Argo data, Global and Planetary Change, doi:10.1016/j/gloplacha.2008.10.004

• Chen J.L., Wilson C.R., Blankenship D. and Tapley B.D. (2009). Accelerated Antarctic ice loss from satellite gravity measurements. Nature Geoscience, 2(12): 859-862.

• Cogley JC. (2009). Geodetic and direct mass balance measurements: Comparison and joint analysis. Ann. Glaciol., 50:96-100

• Ishii M, Kimoto M. (2009). Reevaluation of historical ocean heat content variations with varying XBT and MBT depth bias corrections. J. Oceanogr. 65:287-99

• Leuliette E, Miller L. (2009). Closing the sea level rise budget with altimetry, Argo and GRACE. Geophys. Res. Lett.,36:L04608, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036010

• Levitus S, Antonov JL, Boyer TP, Locarnini RA, Garcia HE, Mishonov AV. (2009). Global Ocean heat content 1955-2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation. Geophys. Res. Lett. 36:L07608, doi:10.1029/2008GL037155

• Llovel W ., Cazenave A., Berge-Nguyen M. and Rogel P. (2009). Past sea level reconstruction (1950-2000) using the OPA/NEMO global ocean circulation model, tide gauge and satellite altimetry data, Climate of the Past, 5, 1-11

• Lombard A, Garric G, Penduff T, Molines JM. (2009). Regional variability of sea level change using a global ocean model at 1/4resolution. Ocean Dyn, doi: 10.1007/s10236-009-0161-6

• Milne G, Gehrels WR, Hughes C, Tamisiea M. (2009). Identyfying the causes of sea level changes. Nat. Geosci. 2:471-78

• Mitrovica JX, Gomez N, Clark PU. (2009). The sea-level fingerprint ofWest Antarctic collapse. Science 323:753

• Peltier WR. (2009). Closure of the budget of global sea level rise over the GRACE era: The importance and magnitudes of the required corrections for global isostatic adjustment. Quart. Sci. Rev. 28:1658-74

• Prandi P., Cazenave A. and Becker M. (2009). Is coastal mean sea level rising faster than the global mean? A comparison between tide gauges and satellite altimetry over 1993-2007, Geophys. Res. Lett.,36, doi:10.1029/2008GL036564

• Slobbe DC, Ditmar P, Linderbergh RC. (2009). Estimating the rates of mass change, ice volume change and snow volume change in Greenland from ICESat and GRACE data. Geophys. J. Int. 176:95-106

• Trenberth K.E., Fasullo JT, Kiehl J. (2009). Earth's global energy budget. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 90:311-23

• Velicogna I., 2009. Increasing rates of ice mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets revealed by Grace.Geophys. Res. Lett., 36.

2008

• Alley R, Fahnestock M, Joughin I. (2008). Understanding glacier flow in changing time. Science 322:1061-62

• Berge-Nguyen M, Cazenave A, Lombard A, Llovel W, Cretaux JF. (2008). Reconstruction of past decades sealevel using tide gauge, altimetry and in situ hydrographic data. Glob. Planet. Change 62:1-13

• Carton JA, Giese BS. (2008). A reanalysis of ocean climate using Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA).Month Weather Rev. 136:2999-3017

• Cazenave A., A. Lombard and W. Llovel. (2008). Present-day sea level rise: a synthesis, (invited review article), C.R. Geosciences, doi:10.1016/j-crte-2008.07.008

• Chao BF ,Wu YH, Li YS. (2008). Impact of artificial reservoir water impoundment on global sea level. Science 320:212-14, doi:10.1126/science.1154580

• Domingues C, Church J, White N, Gleckler PJ,Wijffels SE, et al. (2008). Improved estimates of upper ocean warming and multidecadal sea level rise. Nature 453:1090-93, doi:10.1038/nature07080

• Gille ST. (2008). Decadal scale temperature trends in the southern hemisphere ocean. J. Clim. 21:4749-65

• Hebrard E, Llovel W, Cazenave A. (2008). Spectral analysis of 20th century mean sea level rates. Presented at Am. Geophys. Union, Fall Meeting, Dec. 2008, San Francisco

• Holland D, Thomas RH, De Young B, Ribergaard MH, Lyberth B. 2008, Acceleration of Jakobshawn Isbrae triggered by warm subsurface ocean waters. Nat. Geosci. 1:659-64, doi:10.1038/ngeo316

• Horton R, Herweijer C, Rosenzweig C, Liu J, Gornitz V, Ruane AC. (2008). Sea level rise projections from current generation CGCMs based on the semi-empirical method. Geophys. Res. Lett. 35:L02715, doi:10.1029/2007GL032486

• Huntington TG. (2008). Can we dismiss the effect of changes in land water storage on sea level rise? Hydrol. Process. 22:717-23

• Jevrejeva S, Moore JC, Grinsted A, Woodworth PL. (2008). Recent global sea level acceleration started over 200 years ago? Geophys. Res. Lett. 35:L08715, doi:10.1029/2008GL03361

• Joughin I, Das SB, King M, Smith BE, Howat IM, Moon T. (2008). Seasonal speedup along the western flank of the Greenland ice sheet. Science 320:781-83

• Kohl A, Stammer D. (2008). Decadal sea level changes in the 50-year GECCO ocean synthesis. J. Clim. 21:1876-90

• Lutchke SB, Arendt AA, Rowlands DD, McCarthy JJ, Larsen CF. (2008). Recent glacier mass changes in the Gulf of Alaska region from GRACE mascon solutions. J. Glaciol., 54(188):767-77

• Ramillien G., Bouhours S., Lombard A., Cazenave A., Flechtner F., Schmidt R. (2008). Land water contributions from GRACE to sea level rise over 2002-2006. Glob. Planet. Change, 60:381-92

• Rignot E., Bamber J.L., Van Den Broecke M.R., Davis C., Li Y., et al. (2008a). Recent Antarctic ice mass loss from radar interferometry and regional climate modelling. Nat. Geosci. 1:106-10

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