Correction to "Long-term and recent changes in sea level in the Falkland Islands"

Woodworth, P. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6681-239X; Pugh, D. T.; Bingley, R. M.. 2011 Correction to "Long-term and recent changes in sea level in the Falkland Islands". Journal of Geophysical Research, 116. C11030. 10.1029/2011JC007685

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In the paper “Long-term and recent changes in sea level in the Falkland Islands” by P. L. Woodworth et al. (Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, C09025, doi:10.1029/2010JC006113, 2010), in paragraph 47 we adopted a value of −0.52 mm/yr for the estimated rate of present-day sea level change in the Falkland Islands due to glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA). This value was used to remove the contributions of GIA to our measurements of historical and recent rates of sea level change. However, it was based on a misreading of the data file of Peltier [2004] on the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level Web site (http://www.psmsl.org/train_and_info/geo_signals/gia/peltier). More reasonable values to apply to the observed changes since the mid-nineteenth century and in recent years would be −0.69 and −0.61 mm/yr respectively. Consequently, the long-term rate of sea level change between 1842 and the early 1980s, after correction for air pressure effects and for GIA, reported as +0.75 ± 0.35 mm/yr in paragraphs 1, 47, 55, and 61 should be +0.92 ± 0.35 mm/yr, the corresponding rate between 1842 and the midpoint of recent data of 1.06 ± 0.22 mm/yr in paragraphs 48 and 55 should be 1.23 ± 0.22 mm/yr, and the corresponding rate since 1992 reported as 2.51 ± 0.58 mm/yr in paragraphs 1 and 52 becomes 2.60 ± 0.58 mm/yr. The middle of paragraph 63 becomes “The Stanley data suggest that the rate of change of sea level in East Falkland since 1992 has been approximately 2.6 mm/yr, a rate supported by information from satellite altimetry.” These small GIA model corrections have no bearing on the main findings of our paper on the difference in the rates of sea level change between the historical (1842 to present-day) and recent (last 2 decades) epochs

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1029/2011JC007685
Programmes:	POL Programmes
ISSN:	0148-0227
NORA Subject Terms:	Marine Sciences Earth Sciences
Date made live:	12 Dec 2011 15:21 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/16105

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