Changes in extreme regional sea level under global warming

Brunnabend, S.-E.; Dijkstra, H. A.; Kliphuis, M. A.; Bal, H. E.; Seinstra, F.; van Werkhoven, B.; Maassen, J.; van Meersbergen, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-47-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-47-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-47-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

Research article

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20 Jan 2017

Research article |

| 20 Jan 2017

Changes in extreme regional sea level under global warming

S.-E. Brunnabend, H. A. Dijkstra, M. A. Kliphuis, H. E. Bal, F. Seinstra, B. van Werkhoven, J. Maassen, and M. van Meersbergen

Data sets

POP model simulations Parallel Ocean Program https://www.projects.science.uu.nl/oceanclimate/esalsa/overview_POP_runs_esalsa_project.pdf

Short summary

An important contribution to future changes in regional sea level extremes is due to the changes in intrinsic ocean variability, in particular ocean eddies. Here, we study a scenario of future dynamic sea level (DSL) extremes using a strongly eddying version of the Parallel Ocean Program. Changes in 10-year return time DSL extremes are very inhomogeneous over the globe and are related to changes in ocean currents and corresponding regional shifts in ocean eddy pathways.