Regional sea level changes in the marginal seas of southeast Asia: Mechanisms and projections of possible 21st-century trends (IndoArchipel-2)
We analyse the importance of local heat and freshwater fluxes for sea-level variability in the tropical Pacific on interannual to decadal timescales by using a global ocean model. Our results suggest that they amplify sea-level variability in the eastern part of the basin and dampen it in the central and western part of the domain. We demonstrate that the oceanic response allows local sea-level anomalies to propagate zonally which enables remote effects of local heat and freshwater fluxes.
