ESA Sea Level Budget Closure Climate Change Initiative (SLBC_cci): Time series of global mean sea level budget and ocean mass budget elements (1993-2016, at monthly resolution), version 2.1

This dataset is a compilation of time series, together with uncertainties, of the following elements of the global mean sea level budget and ocean mass budget:

(a) global mean sea level

(b) the steric contribution to global mean sea level, that is, the effect of ocean water density change, which is dominated, on a global average, by thermal expansion

(d) the global glaciers contribution (excluding Greenland and Antarctica)

(e) the Greenland Ice Sheet and Greenland peripheral glaciers contribution

(f) the Antarctic Ice Sheet contribution

(g) the contribution from changes in land water storage (including snow cover).

The compilation is a result from the Sea-level Budget Closure (SLBC_cci) project conducted in the framework of ESA’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI). It provides assessments of the global mean sea level and ocean mass budgets. Assessment of the global mean sea level budget means to assess how well (a) agrees, within uncertainties, to the sum of (b) and (c) or to the sum of (b), (d), (e), (f) and (g). Assessment of the ocean mass budget means to assess how well (c) agrees to the sum (d), (e), (f) and (g).

All time series are expressed in terms of anomalies (in millimetres of equivalent global mean sea level) with respect to the mean value over the 10-year reference period 2006-2015.

The temporal resolution is monthly. The temporal range is from January 1993 to December 2016. Some time series do not cover this full temporal range. All time series are complete over the temporal range from January 2003 to August 2016.

For some elements, more than one time series are given, as a result of different assessments from different data sources and methods.

Data and methods underlying the time series are as follows:

(a) satellite altimetry analysis by the Sea Level CCI project.

(b) a new analysis of Argo drifter data with incorporation of sea surface temperature data; an alternative time series consists in an ensemble mean over previous global mean steric sea level anomaly time series.

(c) analysis of monthly global gravity field solutions from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite gravimetry mission.

(d) results from a global glacier model.

(e) analysis of satellite radar altimetry over the Greenland Ice Sheet, amended by results from the global glacier model for the Greenland peripheral glaciers; an alternative time series consists of results from GRACE satellite gravimetry.

(f) analysis of satellite radar altimetry over the Antarctic Ice Sheet; an alternative time series consists of results from GRACE satellite gravimetry.

(g) results from the WaterGAP global hydrological model.

Date (Publication): 2021-04-06T12:56:59

Date (Creation): 2021-04-06T12:56:59

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1562578dd07844f19f01f0db9366106d

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 1562578dd07844f19f01f0db9366106d

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/1562578dd07844f19f01f0db9366106d

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Horwath, Martin	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Gutknecht, Benjamin D.	Unavailable	Author
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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

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Keywords

sea level budget closure
ESA
CCI

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orthoimagery

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Language: English

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Begin date: 1993-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2016-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1562578dd07844f19f01f0db9366106d	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/sea_level_budget_closure/data/timeseries_slb_elements/v2.1/	DOWNLOAD

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/media/documents/ESA_SLBC_cci_D2.4.2_v1.2.pdf	ESA CCI Sea Level Budget Closure Product Description document

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/projects/sea-level-budget-closure/	ESA Sea Level Budget Closure project

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int	ESA Climate Change Initiative

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).

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Date stamp: 2026-02-05T03:22:06

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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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