A decade of sea level rise slowed by climate-driven hydrology

Author:

Reager J. T.1,Gardner A. S.1,Famiglietti J. S.12,Wiese D. N.1,Eicker A.3,Lo M.-H.4

Affiliation:

1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA.

2. Department of Earth System Science, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.

3. Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

4. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Abstract

By land or by sea How much of an effect does terrestrial groundwater storage have on sea-level rise? Reager et al. used gravity measurements made between 2002 and 2014 by NASA's Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites to quantify variations in groundwater storage. Combining those data with estimates of mass loss by glaciers revealed groundwater's impact on sea-level change. Net groundwater storage has been increasing, and the greatest regional changes, both positive and negative, are associated with climate-driven variability in precipitation. Thus, groundwater storage has slowed the rate of recent sea-level rise by roughly 15%. Science , this issue p. 699

Funder

NASA

NASA GRACE Science Team

Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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