Global Sea Level Budget Assessment: Preliminary Results From ESA's CCI Sea Level Budget Closure Project
Journal: Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU)
Year: 2018

Studies of the sea level budget are a means of assessing and understanding how sea level is changing and what are the causes. Closure of the total sea level budget implies that the observed changes of global mean sea level as determined from satellite altimetry equal the sum of observed (or otherwise assessed) contributions, namely changes in ocean mass and ocean thermal expansion and haline contraction. Here, ocean mass changes can be either derived from GRACE satellite gravimetry (since 2002)