Coast sea level and asian monsoon system a downscaling exercise for Chinese coast

摘要

In this study, the authors examined the relationship between monthly sea level data and concurrent large-scale monthly mean sea level pressure and SST data for 1960 to 1990, which are reasonably well simulated by present day climate models; sea level varia- tions due to variations of regional atmospheric forcing and oceanic circulation, are not adequately simulated by a global climate model because of insufficient spatial resolution. The au- thors applied a statistical "down scaling" strategy to sea level along the Chinese coast.