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Update of Reconstructed GMSL from 1880 to 2013.
This update from the Church and White (2011) extends the data files to the end of 2013 for the reconstruction from tide gauges and to the end of 2014 for the satellite altimetry.
Click here to download the zip file.
The paper describing this is: Church, J. A. and N.J. White (2011), Sea-level rise from
the late 19th to the early 21st Century. Surveys in Geophysics, doi:10.1007/s10712-011-9119-1.
This paper is published "Open Access" and is available as a pdf from here.
We are currently attempting to more thoroughly evaluate the methodology and to improve the reconstruction so that it better represents the variability (Legresy et al., Workshop on Global and Regional Sea Level variability and change, Mallorca, Spain, June 2015).
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History (including data files and readme files) of our steric sea level and ocean heat content data sets
Click here to view the history and download files.
Domingues et al (2008) is available. Get in touch with us (email address below) if you are interested.
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.
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Reconstructed GMSL for 1880 to 2009
as described in Church and White (2011).
Click here
to download the zipfile (21,669 bytes). This zipfile includes data files and a brief
description of the contents of this file.
A list of the tide gauges used is available
here (zipfile, 21,008 bytes)
The paper describing this is: Church, J. A. and N.J. White (2011), Sea-level rise from
the late 19th to the early 21st Century. Surveys in Geophysics, doi:10.1007/s10712-011-9119-1.
This paper is published "Open Access" and is available as a pdf from
here.
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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.
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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, Jason-2/OSTM and now Jason-3 sea level fields - several versions
These data sets are a combination of data from TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2 and Jason-3
See Historical sea level changes - last decades for information about
recent changes to our processing
- near-global (65°S to 65°N), on a 1° × 1° grid
- monthly averages, currently from January 1993 to March 2018 (this is 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 10 Megabytes in size
- They all include a time series of Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL)
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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 and Jason-3 missions and for making the data freely available.
- The many people who have worked to make these missions the successes they have been.
