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Present-day mass redistribution increases the total ocean mass and, on average, causes the ocean bottom to subside elastically. Therefore, barystatic sea-level rise is larger than the resulting global-mean geocentric sea-level rise,observed by satellite altimetry and GPS-corrected tide gauges. We use realistic estimates of mass redistribution from ice-mass loss and land-water storage to quantify the resulting ocean-bottom deformation and its effect on global and regional ocean-volume change estimates. Over 1993-2014, the resulting globally-averaged geocentric sea-level change is 8 percent smaller than the barystatic contribution. Over the altimetry domain, the difference is about 5 percent, and due to this effect, barystatic sea-level rise will be underestimated by more than 0.1 mm/y over 1993 -2014. Regional differences are of-ten larger: up to 1 mm/y over the Arctic Ocean and 0.4 mm/y in the South Pacific. Ocean bottom deformation should be considered when regional sea-level changes are observed in a geocentric reference frame.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	vertical land movement, ice melt, sea level, altimetry, tide gauges
Research Division:	Earth Sciences
Research Group:	Geophysics
Research Field:	Geodesy
Objective Division:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:	Expanding knowledge
Objective Field:	Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences
UTAS Author:	King, MA (Professor Matt King)
ID Code:	122584
Year Published:	2017
Funding Support:	Australian Research Council (DP150100615)
Web of Science® Times Cited:	17
Deposited By:	Geography and Spatial Science
Deposited On:	2017-11-20
Last Modified:	2018-05-22
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