Long-term sea-level variability in the eastern South Atlantic and a comparison with that in the eastern Pacific

Brundrit, G. B.; Cuevas, B. A. de; Shipley, A. M.

doi:10.2989/025776187784522531

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“…11) are available primarily along the west and east coasts of the North Atlantic, with only a few available along the coasts of the South Atlantic. Nevertheless, coherent interannual SLAs were also detected by tide gauges along the South Atlantic west and east coasts, respectively (Brundrit et al 1984, 1987; Douglas 2001; Papadopoulos and Tsimplis 2006). Based on the data availability and dynamical distinctions, in our discussion below we divide the Atlantic into three regions: the western North Atlantic, the eastern North Atlantic and the South Atlantic.…”

Section: The Atlantic Oceanmentioning

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Impacts of Basin-Scale Climate Modes on Coastal Sea Level: a Review

et al. 2019

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Global sea level rise (SLR) associated with a warming climate exerts significant stress on coastal societies and low-lying island regions. The rates of coastal SLR observed in the past few decades, however, have large spatial and temporal differences from the global mean, which to a large part have been attributed to basin-scale climate modes. In this paper, we review our current state of knowledge about climate modes’ impacts on coastal sea level variability from interannual-to-multidecadal timescales. Relevant climate modes, their impacts and associated driving mechanisms through both remote and local processes are elaborated separately for the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. This paper also identifies major issues and challenges for future research on climate modes’ impacts on coastal sea level. Understanding the effects of climate modes is essential for skillful near-term predictions and reliable uncertainty quantifications for future projections of coastal SLR.

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Section: The Atlantic Oceanmentioning

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Impacts of Basin-Scale Climate Modes on Coastal Sea Level: a Review

et al. 2019

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“…Coastal trapped waves have been observed to propagate polewards on the continental shelf at regular synoptic time scales (~3-10 day periods) from Walvis Bay in Namibia (20°S), and to continue around the Cape of Good Hope and up to 800 km east along the eastern coast of South Africa (Brundrit et al 1987;Schumann and Brink 1990).…”

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4 Large scale physical variability of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME)

Shillington¹,

Reason²,

Rae³

et al. 2006

Benguela - Predicting a Large Marine Ecosystem

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“…Interannual variability in the physical system is usually portrayed as occurrences of cold and warm events [ Shannon and Nelson , 1996]. Propagating interannual sea level and sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies have also been observed [ Brundrit et al , 1987], in a manner somewhat equivalent to (but not in phase with) Pacific El Niños [ Shannon et al , 1986].…”

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Linking wind and interannual upwelling variability in a regional model of the southern Benguela

Blanke

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Penven

et al. 2002

Geophysical Research Letters

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[1] We quantify the wind contribution to the development of interannual sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies along the shelf of southern Africa. We compare numerical simulations that differ only in the amount of variability kept in the ERS1/2-derived surface wind forcing. Surprisingly, most of the cold and warm episodes over the Agulhas Bank are strictly related to local fluctuations of the forcing, whereas the shelf of the west coast extending 400 km north of Cape Columbine is equally sensitive to open-sea wind fluctuations. We diagnose the respective role of mesoscale eddy activity and of low frequency and intra-monthly wind fluctuations in generating interannual SST variability. The fair degree of correlation obtained at a few locations between the model and concomitant observations confirms the interest of a regional numerical tool to study anomalous events in the Benguela system.

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Long-term sea-level variability in the eastern South Atlantic and a comparison with that in the eastern Pacific

Cited by 50 publications

References 4 publications

Impacts of Basin-Scale Climate Modes on Coastal Sea Level: a Review

Impacts of Basin-Scale Climate Modes on Coastal Sea Level: a Review

4 Large scale physical variability of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME)

Linking wind and interannual upwelling variability in a regional model of the southern Benguela

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