Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-47-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-47-2017
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
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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.