NEWS – the new SSSI volume number 58 on Integrative Study of Mean Sea Level and its Components is published ! More information in the publication tab.

Providing long, accurate records of sea level (global and regional), and of the various components causing sea level changes (land ice, ocean thermal expansion, salinity changes, land water storage, etc.) is crucial for validating the climate models used for future projections. The ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) program has provided the framework to produce consistent and continuous space-based records for several climate parameters (so called ‘Essential Climate Variables’ –ECVs-); among them, sea level, glaciers, ice sheets, sea surface temperature (SST) and Ocean Colour.

The objective of this workshop is to discuss in an integrative context recent results obtained by the ESA CCI program for the sea level, glaciers and ice sheets ECVs. Improvement of these ECVs allows better understanding the mass contribution to sealevel rise, hence of the sea level budget. The workshop will also address the regional variability in sea level, SST and Ocean Colour, and discuss the relative contributions of the natural/internal climate variability and anthropogenic forcing (detection/attribution) to associated spatial trend patterns.

Last update: June 1, 2017