Integrative Study of the Mean Sea Level and Its Components

Anny Cazenave is a Senior Scientist at the Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale in Toulouse. She is the Director for Earth Sciences at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland. Her research interests include space research to various earth sciences, such as geodesy, geophysics, sea level and climate, and global water cycle. She is the lead author of the IPCC Working Group I (4th and 5th assessment reports. She is a member of the Joint Science Committee of the World Climate Research Program, a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of the American, Indian and Belgian Academies of Sciences.Nicolas Champollion completed his PhD at the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Geophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE) in Grenoble, France, in 2013. His thesis is about the evolution of the snow surface on the Antarctica plateau from in situ and remote sensing observations. He continues his research work at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, focusing on sea level budget and its components. An important part of his work at ISSI has been the organization of an international workshop on various themes, with among them water resources, sea level, clouds, and imaging spectroscopy technique.Frank Paul has a diploma in meteorology from the University of Hamburg and a Ph.D. degree in physical geography from the University of Zurich, where he is currently working as a senior research scientist and group leader. He has worked in several national and international research projects related to glacier mapping and monitoring from space-borne optical sensors, distributed mass-balance modeling of glaciers, as well as geomorphometric analysis of DEMs and their application in glaciological studies. He was PI of the ESA Project GlobGlacier and is currently science leader of the follow-up project Glaciers_cci. He served as a lead author in Working Group I of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the cryosphere Chapter. He is guest editor of a special issue of the journal “Remote Sensing’ on the topic ‘Remote sensing of glaciers’ and member of the editorial board of the journal ‘Remote Sensing of Environment’Jérôme Benveniste received his PhD in Oceanography from Space from the University of Toulouse, France, in 1989. After a Post-Doc in space data assimilation in ocean models at MIT, Boston, USA, he moved to the European Space Agency. He has been at the Earth Observation data centre near Rome since 1992, where he is in charge of the ERS-1, ERS-2, ENVISAT, CryoSat and Sentinel-3 radar altimetry data exploitation. He interacts with ESA Principal Investigators, organises scientific symposia, and often launches Research and Development projects, including GOCE data exploitation. He was recognised as senior advisor at ESA in 2008. He is co-editor of a Springer book on Coastal Zone Radar Altimetry, published in 2011 and on Inland Water Altimetry, to be published in 2017. Jérôme Benveniste monitors the six-year Climate Change Initiative Sea Level Project, launched in 2009.

• Preface.- Observations & Contributors to Sea Level.- Satellite Altimetry-Based Sea Level at Global and Regional Scales.- Monitoring Sea Level in the Coastal Zone with Satellite Altimetry and Tide Gauges.- Uncertainties in Steric Sea Level Change Estimation during the Satellite Altimeter Era: Concepts and Practices.- Greenland and Antarctica Ice Sheet Mass Changes and Effects on Global Sea Level.- Observation-Based Estimates of Global Glacier Mass Change and Its Contribution to Sea Level Change.- Recent Changes in Land Water Storage and its Contributions to Sea Level Variations.- Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Contemporary Sea Level Rise: An Overview.-  Causes of the Regional Variability in Observed Sea Level, Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Color over the Period 1993-2011.- Spatial Patterns of Sea Level Variability Associated with Natural Internal Climate Modes.- Arctic Sea Level during the Satellite Alimetry Era.- Phenological Responses to ENSO in the Global Ocean.-  The Twentieth Century Sea Level Budget: Recent Progress and Challenges.- Evaluation of the Global Mean Sea Level Budget between 1993 and 2014.-  Internal Variability versus Anthropogenic Forcing on Sea Level and its Components.- From Observations to Sea Level Projections.- Testing the Quality of Sea Level Data using the GECCO Adjoint Assimilation Approach.- A Review of Recent Updates of Sea Level Projections at Global and Regional Scale.