of water mass redistri-
bution, than factors that contribute to changes in the global average (Church, Clark, et al., 2013).
Ocean water density alters due to changes in temperature or salinity. These variations affect the
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ocean volume and result in steric height changes. Since the
total salt load is relatively constant on
a global scale, the steric changes are dominated by the temperature effect
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