An Assessment of Regional ICESat‐2 Sea‐Level Trends

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• Journal Title:
  Geophysical Research Letters
• Personal Author:
  Buzzanga, Brett ; Heijkoop, Eduard ; Hamlington, Benjamin D. ; Nerem, R. Steven ; Gardner, Alex
• NOAA Program & Office:
  CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
• Description:
  Sea-level rise is an important indicator of ongoing climate change and well observed by satellite altimetry. However, observations from conventional altimetry degrade at the coast where regional sea-level changes can deviate from the open-ocean and impact local communities. With the 2018 launch of the laser altimeter onboard ICESat-2, new high-resolution observations of ice, land, and ocean elevations are available. Here we assess the potential benefits of sea level measured by ICESat-2 by comparing to data from Jason-3 and tide gauges. We find good agreement in the linear rates computed from the independent observations, with an absolute average residual of 3.60 ± 0.03 cm yr−1 between
• Keywords:
  General Earth And Planetary Sciences Geophysics General Earth And Planetary Sciences General Earth And Planetary Sciences
• Source:
  Geophysical Research Letters, 48(9)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl092327
• ISSN:
  0094-8276 ; 1944-8007
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Other
• Compliance:
  Library
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  urn:sha256:3f309e4b441f7ff00720e55bf3ed5e3a7ce16c3db2a0d91973f4e0caee1f2532
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