AUTHOR=Karabil Sitar , Sutanudjaja Edwin H. , Lambert Erwin , Bierkens Marc F. P. , Van de Wal Roderik S. W. 

TITLE=Contribution of Land Water Storage Change to Regional Sea-Level Rise Over the Twenty-First Century

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Earth Science

VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.627648

DOI=10.3389/feart.2021.627648

ISSN=2296-6463

ABSTRACT=Change in Land Water Storage (LWS) is one of the main components driving sea-level rise over the
21st century. LWS alteration results from both human activities and climate change. Up to now, climate
change-induced LWS and the resultant contribution to regional sea-level changes have not been
quantified. This study, for the first time, explores the possible range of LWS contributions across climate scenarios to global and regional sea-level change by the end of the 21st century. For this quantification, we investigated the contribution of LWS change to regional sea-level rise by considering five different climate models forced by three different climate scenarios over the 21st century. Our results suggest that LWS change
will contribute around 10% to the projected global mean sea-level rise by the end of 21st century. The
contribution of LWS to regional sea-level rise is projected to be considerably larger than the global
mean over several regions including Pacific islands, the south coast of Africa and the west coast of
Australia.