Unraveling regional patterns of sea level acceleration over the China Seas

Qu, Ying; Jevrejeva, Svetlana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9490-4665; Wang, Shijin. 2023 Unraveling regional patterns of sea level acceleration over the China Seas. Remote Sensing, 15 (18), 4448. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15184448

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Abstract/Summary

Accelerated sea level rise is placing coastal communities in a vulnerable position; however, the processes underlying sea level acceleration in China remain uncertain. In this study, we examine the sea level acceleration and its contributors over the China Seas. We calculate acceleration along the Chinese coast using satellite altimetry and tide gauge records. During the satellite altimetry era, sea level acceleration from tide gauge records varies across all stations, reaching up to 0.30 ± 0.20 mm/yr2, while satellite altimetry could underestimate/overestimate the sea level acceleration in most locations. Acceleration near the coast, except in the Bohai Sea, is mainly driven by changes in the mass component. In contrast, for the open ocean, changes in steric sea level are the main contributor to sea level acceleration. The evolution of spatial acceleration patterns over the China Seas reveals that the ENSO and PDO variabilities dominate the changing patterns of sea level acceleration in the open ocean, including the Philippine Sea through steric sea level, and changes in most coastal locations are due to the non-steric component.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15184448
ISSN:	2072-4292
Date made live:	25 Sep 2023 13:11 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/535893

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