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  <dc:contributor>A. Cazenave</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>M.C. Gennero</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>P. C. D. Milly</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2003</dc:date>
  <dc:description>Using a global model of continental water balance, forced by interannual variations in precipitation and near-surface atmospheric temperature for the period 1981-1998, we estimate the sea-level changes associated with climate-driven changes in storage of water as snowpack, soil water, and ground water; storage in ice sheets and large lakes is not considered. The 1981-1998 trend is estimated to be 0.12 mm/yr, and substantial interannual fluctuations are inferred; for 1993-1998, the trend is 0.25 mm/yr. At the decadal time scale, the terrestrial contribution to eustatic (i.e., induced by mass exchange) sea-level rise is significantly smaller than the estimated steric (i.e., induced by density changes) trend for the same period, but is not negligibly small. In the model the sea-level rise is driven mainly by a downtrend in continental precipitation during the study period, which we believe was generated by natural variability in the climate system.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1073/pnas.2134014100</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:title>Contribution of climate-driven change in continental water storage to recent sea-level rise</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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