A lot can happen...

in the space of 10 minutes!

The other week, both Carolina and Tim received good news: an email saying that their paper had been accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans - within 10 minutes of each other! 

For Carolina, this is her first PhD paper, entitled 'Exploring sources of uncertainty in steric sea-level change estimates'. 

In her paper, Carolina explores two potential sources of uncertainty in steric sea-level change estimates. First, she compared the global and regional steric changes in 15 different reconstructions. Second, she compared different noise models that can be used to represent the uncertainty in the data, and their effect on the steric sea-level trend. She finds that an auto-regressive order 1 model is most appropriate to describe the noise in the ensemble mean. 

Carolina has made a short video to explain what she does in the paper. And if you would like to know more ... read the paper!

For Tim, this is his second PhD paper on the Northwest European Shelf region: 'Drivers of interannual sea level variability on the Northwestern European shelf'. 

In his paper, Tim used the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) to explore what is are the most important factors driving ocean dynamic changes on the shelf. First, the ROMS setup, driven with reanalysis data at the lateral and atmospheric boundaries, is compared to satellite altimetry data. He then studies the effect of the lateral ocean boundary conditions and atmospheric conditions (wind, inverse barometer) on the variability in dynamic sea-level change, and finds, among other things, that the variability in the North Sea is mainly wind-driven. if you'd like to find out more... read the paper!