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An Abrupt Decline in Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Its Relationship with Sea Level Change

Rodell, Matthew, Barnoud, Anne, Robertson, Franklin R., Allan, Richard P., Bellas-Manley, Ashley, Bosilovich, Michael G., Chambers, Don, Landerer, Felix, Loomis, Bryant, Nerem, R. Steven, O'Neill, Mary Michael, Wiese, David, and Seneviratne, Sonia I., 2024. An Abrupt Decline in Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Its Relationship with Sea Level Change. Surveys in Geophysics, 45(6):1875–1902, doi:10.1007/s10712-024-09860-w.

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@ARTICLE{2024SGeo...45.1875R,
       author = {{Rodell}, Matthew and {Barnoud}, Anne and {Robertson}, Franklin R. and {Allan}, Richard P. and {Bellas-Manley}, Ashley and {Bosilovich}, Michael G. and {Chambers}, Don and {Landerer}, Felix and {Loomis}, Bryant and {Nerem}, R. Steven and {O'Neill}, Mary Michael and {Wiese}, David and {Seneviratne}, Sonia I.},
        title = "{An Abrupt Decline in Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Its Relationship with Sea Level Change}",
      journal = {Surveys in Geophysics},
     keywords = {Climate change, Terrestrial water storage, Sea level, GRACE, Earth Sciences, Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, Engineering, Geomatic Engineering},
         year = 2024,
        month = dec,
       volume = {45},
       number = {6},
        pages = {1875-1902},
     abstract = "{As observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and
        GRACE Follow On (GRACE-FO) missions, global terrestrial water
        storage (TWS), excluding ice sheets and glaciers, declined
        rapidly between May 2014 and March 2016. By 2023, it had not yet
        recovered, with the upper end of its range remaining 1 cm
        equivalent height of water below the upper end of the earlier
        range. Beginning with a record-setting drought in northeastern
        South America, a series of droughts on five continents helped to
        prevent global TWS from rebounding. While back-to-back El
        Ni{\~n}o events are largely responsible for the South American
        drought and others in the 2014{\textendash}2016 timeframe, the
        possibility exists that global warming has contributed to a net
        drying of the land since then, through enhanced
        evapotranspiration and increasing frequency and intensity of
        drought. Corollary to the decline in global TWS since 2015 has
        been a rise in barystatic sea level (i.e., global mean ocean
        mass). However, we find no evidence that it is anything other
        than a coincidence that, also in 2015, two estimates of
        barystatic sea level change, one from GRACE/FO and the other
        from a combination of satellite altimetry and Argo float ocean
        temperature measurements, began to diverge. Herein, we discuss
        both the mechanisms that account for the abrupt decline in
        terrestrial water storage and the possible explanations for the
        divergence of the barystatic sea level change estimates.}",
          doi = {10.1007/s10712-024-09860-w},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024SGeo...45.1875R},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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