Category Archives: Oceans

In looking for causes, I have applied the ‘Sherlock Holmes procedure’ of eliminating one suspect after another. The procedure has left us without any good suspect. Thermal expansion was the candidate of choice at the time of the first IPCC review. The computed steric rise is too little, too late, and too linear. – Walter Munk

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Will advances in groundwater science force a paradigm shift in sea level rise attribution?

Posted on March 4, 2018 by curryja | 117 comments

by Jim Steele

A better accounting of natural groundwater discharge is needed to constrain the range of contributions to sea level rise. The greater the contribution from groundwater discharge, the smaller the adjustments used to amplify contributions from meltwater and thermal expansion.

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Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part IV – Satellite era record

Posted on February 17, 2018 by curryja | 207 comments

by Judith Curry

Part IV of the Climate Etc. series on sea level rise focuses on the satellite era (since 1993), including the recent causes of sea level variations and arguments regarding the acceleration (or not) of recent sea level rise.

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Posted in Data and observations, Oceans