Sea Level Data

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Please acknowledge the appropriate source if you use any of these data sets.

Domingues et al (2008) can now be downloaded.

Click here to download the pdf file.

Reference: Domingues, C.M., J.A. Church, N.J. White, P.J. Gleckler, S.E. Wijffels, P.M. Barker and J.R. Dunn (2008), Improved estimates of upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise. Nature, 453, 1090-1094, doi:10.1038/nature07080.

If you have problems downloading, email me using the link at the bottom of the page.

You can also request the data using the form further down the page.

Data downloads - sea level and ocean heat content

Reconstructed GMSL for 1870 to 2001
as described in Church and White (2006) (reference below)

Click here to download the zipfile (10,645 bytes). This zipfile includes a data file and a brief description of the contents of this file.

Church, J. A. and N.J. White (2006), A 20th century acceleration in global sea level rise, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L01602, doi:10.1029/2005GL024826.
Reconstructed sea-surface heights for 1950 to 2001
as described in Church et al. (2004) (reference below), except that it has been extended to the end of 2001.

Briefly, this data set is
- near-global (65°S to 65°N) from January 1950 to December 2001
  on a 1° × 1° × 1 month grid
- seasonal signal removed
- inverse barometer correction made
- GIA (Mitrovica) correction made to tide gauge data
Click here to download the gzip'ed netCDF file (14,571,619 bytes).

Reference: Church, J.A., N.J. White, R. Coleman, K. Lambeck and J.X. Mitrovica (2004), Estimates of the Regional Distribution of sea level Rise over the 1950 to 2000 Period. Journal of Climate, 17, 2609-2625.

Combined TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2/OSTM sea level fields - several versions

These data sets are a combination of data from TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2/OSTM

near-global (65°S to 65°N), on a 1° × 1° grid
monthly averages, currently from January 1993 to September 2009 (will be extended as data becomes available)
Versions available:

with or without the inverse barometer correction
with or without the seasonal (annual + semi-annual) signal removed
with or without the GIA correction

All are available as gzip'ed netCDF files, and are each about 7 Megabytes in size
They all include a time series of Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL)


File name	Click to download	Inverse barometer correction	Seasonal signal	GIA correction
jb_ibn_srn_gtn_gin.nc.gz	Download	Not done	Not removed	Not done
jb_ibn_srn_gtn_giy.nc.gz	Download	Not done	Not removed	Done
jb_ibn_sry_gtn_gin.nc.gz	Download	Not done	Removed	Not done
jb_ibn_sry_gtn_giy.nc.gz	Download	Not done	Removed	Done
jb_iby_srn_gtn_gin.nc.gz	Download	Done	Not removed	Not done
jb_iby_srn_gtn_giy.nc.gz	Download	Done	Not removed	Done
jb_iby_sry_gtn_gin.nc.gz	Download	Done	Removed	Not done
jb_iby_sry_gtn_giy.nc.gz	Download	Done	Removed	Done

Acknowledgements:

TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 data were obtained from the NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology.
Jason-2/OSTM data was obtained from Aviso (CNES and CLS, France).
CNES (France) and NASA (USA) for their roles in the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 missions and for making the data freely available.
CNES, NASA, NOAA (USA) and EUMETSAT (Europe) for their roles in the Jason-2/OSTM mission and for making the data freely available.
The many people who have worked to make these missions the successes they have been.

Ocean Heat Content (OHC) and thermosteric GMSL for 1950 to 2003 as described in Domingues et al. (2008)

Domingues, C.M., J.A. Church, N.J. White, P.J. Gleckler, S.E. Wijffels, P.M. Barker and J.R. Dunn (2008), Improved estimates of upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise. Nature, 453, 1090-1094, doi:10.1038/nature07080.

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