Communications Earth & Environment (May 2022)

Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations

  • Anny Cazenave,
  • Yvan Gouzenes,
  • Florence Birol,
  • Fabien Leger,
  • Marcello Passaro,
  • Francisco M. Calafat,
  • Andrew Shaw,
  • Fernando Nino,
  • Jean François Legeais,
  • Julius Oelsmann,
  • Marco Restano,
  • Jérôme Benveniste

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00448-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Sea level trends at decadal timescales within 20 km of the world’s coastlines can be determined for the period 2002 to 2019 through dedicated reprocessing of high-resolution along-track altimetry data.