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Coastal system responses to global and regional sea-level change Open

Detlef Stammer, Gonéri Le Cozannet, Aimée B. A. Slangen, Mark Carson, Anny Cazenave , et al. · 2025

Benefit of MAGIC and multipair quantum satellite gravity missions in Earth science applications Open

Jürgen Kusche, Christina Strohmenger, Helena Gerdener, Bernd Uebbing, Anne Springer , et al. · 2025

SUMMARY We evaluate simulations for single-, double- and multiple-pair satellite gravimetry missions with respect to applications in hydrology, sea level budgeting and solid Earth science. We begin with the retrieval of weekly spherical ha…

Benefit of MAGIC and multi-pair quantum satellite gravity missions in Earth science applications Open

Jürgen Kusche, Christina Strohmenger, Helena Gerdener, Bernd Uebbing, Anne Springer , et al. · 2025

Chaotic oceanic excitation of low-frequency polar motion variability Open

Lara Börger, Michael Schindelegger, Mengnan Zhao, Rui M. Ponte, Anno Löcher , et al. · 2025

Studies of Earth rotation variations generally assume that changes in non-tidal oceanic angular momentum (OAM) manifest the ocean's direct response to atmospheric forces. However, fluctuations in OAM may also arise from chaotic intrinsic o…

Chaotic oceanic excitation of low-frequency polar motion variability Open

Lara Börger, Michael Schindelegger, Mengnan Zhao, Rui M. Ponte, Anno Löcher , et al. · 2024

Studies of Earth rotation variations generally assume that changes in non-tidal oceanic angular momentum (OAM) manifest the ocean's direct response to atmospheric forces. However, fluctuations in OAM may also arise from chaotic intrinsic o…

An alternative to PCA utilizing Dynamic Time Warping Open

Bernd Uebbing, Jan Höckendorff, Caroline Jungheim, Anne Driemel, Christian Sohler , et al. · 2024

The Earth’s system is warming due to natural and human driven climate change. Observing, analyzing and understanding the associated geophysical processes is important in order to improve prediction of future changes and mitigate impa…

Chaotic oceanic excitation of low-frequency polar motion variability Open

Lara Börger, Michael Schindelegger, Mengnan Zhao, Rui M. Ponte, Anno Löcher , et al. · 2024

Studies of Earth rotation variations generally assume that changes in non-tidal oceanic angular momentum (OAM) manifest the ocean's forced response to atmospheric pressure, wind, and heat and freshwater fluxes. However, on monthly and long…

Globally consistent estimates of high-resolution Antarctic ice mass balance and spatially resolved glacial isostatic adjustment Open

Matthias O. Willen, Martin Horwath, Eric Buchta, Mirko Scheinert, Veit Helm , et al. · 2024

A detailed understanding of how the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) responds to a warming climate is needed because it will most likely increase the rate of global mean sea level rise. Time-variable satellite gravimetry, realized by the Gravity …

Comment on tc-2023-119 Open

Matthias O. Willen, Martin Horwath, Eric Buchta, Veit Helm, Bernd Uebbing , et al. · 2023

Abstract. A detailed understanding of how the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) responds to a warming climate is needed because it will most likely increase the rate of global mean sea level rise. Time-variable satellite gravimetr…

Supplementary material to "Globally consistent estimates of high-resolution Antarctic ice mass balance and spatially-resolved glacial isostatic adjustment" Open

Matthias O. Willen, Martin Horwath, Eric Buchta, Veit Helm, Bernd Uebbing , et al. · 2023

A Parametrization updates with respect to Willen et al. (2022) We extended the parametrization of AIS IMC, implemented by the design matrices X GRAV AIS-IMC and X AIS-ALT AIS-IMC , to the peripheral glaciers on surrounding islands, e.g.Ber…

Globally consistent estimates of high-resolution Antarctic ice mass balance and spatially-resolved glacial isostatic adjustment Open

Matthias O. Willen, Martin Horwath, Eric Buchta, Veit Helm, Bernd Uebbing , et al. · 2023

A detailed understanding of how the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) responds to a warming climate is needed because it will most likely increase the rate of global mean sea level rise. Time-variable satellite gravimetry, realized by the GRACE an…

A novel approach for assessing regionally differentiated ocean contributions to Earth Energy Imbalance from GRACE(-FO) and multi-mission altimetry Open

Bernd Uebbing, Kristin Vielberg, Bene Aschenneller, Roelof Rietbroek, Armin Köhl , et al. · 2023

Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) results from a net positive radiative flux at the top of atmosphere. Over 90% of this excess energy is stored as heat in the ocean causing present day ocean heat content (OHC) change. This in turn leads to volu…

Investigating the sea level budget in the East China Sea Open

Christina Strohmenger, Ziyu Liu, Bernd Uebbing, Jürgen Kusche, Lennart Reißner , et al. · 2023

Sea level change is not uniform around the globe. We focus on regional sea level change in the East China Sea (ECS), a Western Pacific marginal sea of 770.000 km2, with a densely populated and economically important coastal area. Several c…

Simulated Signatures of Greenland Melting in the North Atlantic: A Model Comparison With Argo Floats, Satellite Observations, and Ocean Reanalysis Open

Sophie Stolzenberger, Roelof Rietbroek, Claudia Wekerle, Bernd Uebbing, Jürgen Kusche · 2022

Increased Greenland ice sheet melting has an impact on global mean and regional sea level rise and the ocean circulation. In this study, we explore whether Greenland melting signatures found in ocean model simulations are visible in observ…

Feasibility of a global inversion for spatially resolved glacial isostatic adjustment and ice sheet mass changes proven in simulation experiments Open

Matthias O. Willen, Martin Horwath, Andreas Groh, Veit Helm, Bernd Uebbing , et al. · 2022

Investigating global and regional sea level budgets by combining GRACE(-FO) and altimetry data in a joint fingerprint inversion Open

Bernd Uebbing, Roelof Rietbroek, Jürgen Kusche · 2022

Sea level change affects hundreds of millions of people living in coastal regions. In addition to measuring the total sea level change via satellite altimetry, it is important to understand individual mass and steric contributors …

How robust are estimates of hydrology–driven global sea level change based on modelling and GRACE data? Open

Jürgen Kusche, Christian Mielke, Olga Engels, Fupeng Li, Bernd Uebbing · 2022

One of the less well-known contributions to global sea level change is the net mass loss or gain of non-cryospheric land water storage, here abbreviated as hydrology-driven global mean sea level rise (HDGMSL). HDGMSL is due to nat…

Contributions of ocean bottom pressure and density changes to regional sea level change in the East Indian Ocean from GRACE, altimetry and Argo data Open

Alisa Yakhontova, Roelof Rietbroek, Jürgen Kusche, Sophie Stolzenberger, Bernd Uebbing · 2022

Understanding variations in the ocean heat content is tightly linked to understanding interactions of the global energy cycle with the regional water cycle. Mass, volume, temperature and density changes of  the ocean wate…

Exploring Coastal Altimetry Datasets for Indonesian Seas in relation to Local Tide Gauges Open

Zulfikar Adlan Nadzir, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, Bernd Uebbing, Jürgen Kusche · 2022

Satellite Altimetry has been continuously providing precise sea level for the last 28 years. However, the conventional altimetry is not at its best for the coast because it is hampered by mixed returns of electromagnetic waves due…

Improving SAR Altimeter processing over the coastal zone - the ESA HYDROCOASTAL project Open

David Cotton, Christine Gommenginger, Ole Andersen, Albert García-Mondéjar, Karina Nielsen , et al. · 2021

Introduction HYDROCOASTAL is a two year project funded by ESA, with the objective to maximise exploitation of SAR and SARin altimeter measurements in the coastal zone and inland waters, by evaluating and implementing new approaches to proc…

Improving SAR Altimeter processing over Inland Water - the ESA HYDROCOASTAL project Open

David Cotton, Albert García-Mondéjar, Christine Gommenginger, Ole Andersen, Karina Nielsen , et al. · 2021

Earth and Space Science Open Archive Presented WorkOpen AccessYou are viewing the latest version by default [v1]Improving SAR Altimeter processing over Inland Water - the ESA HYDROCOASTAL projectAuthorsDavidCottoniDAlbertGarcia-MondéjarChr…

Annual and inter-annual sea-level variability from coastal altimetry and tide gauge data Open

Anara Kudabayeva, Michael Schindelegger, Rui M. Ponte, Bernd Uebbing · 2021

Accurate long-term measurements of coastal sea level are fundamental for understanding changes in ocean circulation and assessing the impact of low-frequency sea-level variability on, e.g., near-shore ecosystems, grou…

mSTAR: Multicriteria Spatio Temporal Altimetry Retracking Open

Lutz Oettershagen, Bernd Uebbing, Jonas Charfreitag, Petra Mutzel, Jürgen Kusche · 2021

Observing coastal sea-level change from satellite altimetry is challenging due to land influence on the estimated sea surface height (SSH), significant wave height (SWH), and backscatter. In recent years specialized algorithms hav…

Greenland melting signatures in model simulations and oceanic observations Open

Sophie Stolzenberger, Roelof Rietbroek, Claudia Wekerle, Bernd Uebbing, Jürgen Kusche · 2021

The impact of Greenland freshwater on oceanic variables in the North Atlantic has been controversially discussed in the past. Within the framework of the German research project GROCE (Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean Interaction), we pr…

Improving coastal altimetry results using the Spatio Temporal Altimetry Retracking for SAR (STARS) Open

Bernd Uebbing, Christopher Buchhaupt, Sophie Stolzenberger, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, Jürgen Kusche , et al. · 2021

Accurate knowledge of sea level change, especially close to the coast, is of major importance in order to analyze and understand drivers of local sea level change and to plan coast…

Coastal Sea Level Change from in the North Eastern Atlantic Open

Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, Bernd Uebbing, Jürgen Kusche, Salvatore Dinardo · 2020

A significant part of the World population lives in the coastal zone, which is affected by coastal sea level rise and extreme events. Our hypothesis is that the most accurate sea level height measurements are derived from the&…

Closing the global and regional sea level budgets by combining multi-mission altimetry and GRACE(-FO) data Open

Bernd Uebbing, Christina Lück, Roelof Rietbroek, Kristin Vielberg, Jürgen Kusche · 2020

Understanding present day sea level changes and their drivers requires the separation of the total sea level change into individual mass and steric related contributions. Total sea level rise has been observed continuously since 1…

Improving the representation of ice-sheet mass changes in the global inversion for sea-level contributions Open

Matthias O. Willen, Bernd Uebbing, Martin Horwath, Jürgen Kusche, Roelof Rietbroek , et al. · 2020

Global-mean sea level rises (GMSLR) by 3.1-3.5 mm a-1 (1993-2017) and of which<…

Can Swarm and SLR contribute to closing the global sea level budget? Open

Christina Lück, Bernd Uebbing, Anno Löcher, Roelof Rietbroek, Jürgen Kusche , et al. · 2020

Sea level change is an important indicator of global warming. In order to predict future sea level changes, it becomes more and more important to understand the complex contribution of different components (steric changes, melting…

How uncertain is the hydrological contribution to global sea level based on hydrological modelling compared to observational data? Open

Christian Mielke, Olga Engels, Bernd Uebbing, Helena Gerdener, Lara Börger , et al. · 2020

Quantifying individual contributors to global and regional mean sea level along with corresponding uncertainties is crucial for future projections. However, the contribution of terrestrial hydrology seems to be the least known, bu…

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