Remotely Sensed Wind, Wave, and Sea Level for European Sea Climatology

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abderrahim Bentamy ◽  
Hafedh Hajji ◽  
Carlos Guedes Soares
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Satellite Data ◽  
Wind Wave ◽  
Remotely Sensed ◽  
Wind Data ◽  
Remotely Sensed Data ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Wind Sea ◽  
Initial Results ◽  
And Sea Level

This paper provides an overview of the analysis of remotely sensed data that has been performed within the scope of a project aiming at obtaining a 40-year hindcast of wind, sea level and wave climatology for the European waters. The satellite data, including wind, wave and sea-level data, are collected for the same areas and are calibrated with available and validated measurements. It will be used to be compared with the hindcast results, so as to yield some uncertainty measures related to the data. This paper describes the type of data that will be used and presents the initial results, which concern mainly remote sensed wind data.

scholarly journals Exceptional retreat of Novaya Zemlya's marine-terminating outlet glaciers between 2000 and 2013

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rachel Carr ◽  
Heather Bell ◽  
Rebecca Killick ◽  
Tom Holt
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Remotely Sensed ◽  
Glacier Retreat ◽  
Remotely Sensed Data ◽  
Novaya Zemlya ◽  
The Past ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Novaya Zemlya (NVZ) has experienced rapid ice loss and accelerated marine-terminating glacier retreat during the past two decades. However, it is unknown whether this retreat is exceptional longer-term and/or whether it has persisted since 2010. Investigating this is vital, as dynamic thinning may contribute substantially to ice loss from NVZ, but is not currently included in sea level rise predictions. Here, we use remotely sensed data to assess controls on NVZ glacier retreat between the 1973/6 and 2015. Glaciers that terminate into lakes or the ocean receded 3.5 times faster than those that terminate on land. Between 2000 and 2013, retreat rates were significantly higher on marine-terminating outlet glaciers than during the previous 27 years, and we observe widespread slow-down in retreat, and even advance, between 2013 and 2015. There were some common patterns in the timing of glacier retreat, but the magnitude varied between individual glaciers. Rapid retreat between 2000–2013 corresponds to a period of significantly warmer air temperatures and reduced sea ice concentrations, and to changes in the NAO and AMO. We need to assess the impact of this accelerated retreat on dynamic ice losses from NVZ, to accurately quantify its future sea level rise contribution.

scholarly journals Wind driven currents in the channel of São Sebastião: winter, 1979

1990 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belmiro Mendes de Castro Fo
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
The South ◽  
Frequency Bands ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Wind Driven Currents ◽  
South Brazil ◽  
And Sea Level

Simultaneous 40 h low-passed wind, current and sea level data in the Channel of São Sebastião (CSS) and atmospheric pressure and sea level data in the South Brazil Bight (SBB) during winter of 1979 were analysed and compared. Currents in the CSS were predominantly northeastward, associated with frontal southerly winds. Current reversals occurred between meteorological disturbance passages. There were significant correlation between alongchannel components of wind and current, with a time lag of 12-18 h, wind leading; and between alongchannel component of current and sea level, with a time lag of 6-12 h, current leading. Most of the variance in the CSS series is concentrated in two frequency bands: 11-16 d and 3 d. SBB series also show high variance in those two bands. Coherences in those two bands show significant values when calculated between alongchannel components of wind and current, and sea level, in the CSS. Those three last signals were almost in phase in the 11-16 d band; and there was a lead of 16 h (25 h) by wind over current (sea level) in the 3 d band. There are several indications that in die subtidal band currents in the CSS are not totally locally forced.

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