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A decade of sea level rise slowed by climate-driven hydrology
- States that observational challenges have prevented the inclusion of land water storage and its contributions to sea level rise in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sea level budgets
- Finds that advances in satellite measurement of time-variable gravity combined with reconciled global glacier loss estimates enable a disaggregation of continental land mass changes and a quantification of this term
- Finds that between 2002 and 2014, climate variability resulted in an additional 3200 ± 900 gigatons of water being stored on land
- Finds that the gain partially offset water losses from ice sheets, glaciers, and groundwater pumping, slowing the rate of sea level rise by 0.71 ± 0.20 millimeters per year
- Results highlight the importance of climate-driven changes in hydrology when assigning attribution to decadal changes in sea level
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