Interannual variability of mean sea level and its sensitivity to wind climate in an inter-tidal basin

Gerkema, Theo; Duran-Matute, Matias

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-1223-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-1223-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-1223-2017

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

Articles | Volume 8, issue 4

Research article

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20 Dec 2017

Research article |

| 20 Dec 2017

Interannual variability of mean sea level and its sensitivity to wind climate in an inter-tidal basin

Theo Gerkema and Matias Duran-Matute

Data sets

Annual mean sea-level in the Dutch Wadden Sea 2009–2011 T. Gerkema and M. Duran-Matute https://doi.org/10.4121/uuid:115ef6c5-8c58-4905-91f5-537985fb3b6f

Short summary

Local mean sea level often varies strongly from year to year (on the order of a few decimeters). This is mainly due to interannual variability in wind climate and atmospheric pressure. In this paper, regional differences in the sensitivity of mean sea level to atmospheric forcing are studied in an inter-tidal basin. Correcting for the atmospheric effects removes most of the interannual variability in mean sea level.