Mechanisms of variability in decadal sea-level trends in the Baltic Sea over the 20th century

Karabil, Sitar; Zorita, Eduardo; Hünicke, Birgit

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-1031-2017

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Mechanisms of variability in decadal sea-level trends in the Baltic Sea over the 20th century

Sitar Karabil, Eduardo Zorita, and Birgit Hünicke

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Mechanisms of variability of decadal sea-level trends in the Baltic Sea over the 20th century S. Karabil, E. Zorita, and B. Hünicke https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2017-30

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We statistically analysed the mechanisms of the variability in decadal sea-level trends for the whole Baltic Sea basin over the last century. We used two different sea-level data sets and several climatic data sets. The results of this study showed that precipitation has a lagged effect on decadal sea-level trend variations from which the signature of atmospheric effect is removed. This detected underlying factor is not connected to oceanic forcing driven from the North Atlantic region.