On the steric and mass‐induced contributions to the annual sea level variations in the Mediterranean Sea

The authors thank NASA Pathfinder project and Andrew Au for assistance in data processing. The altimeter products were produced by the CLS Space Oceanography Division as part of the Environment and Climate EU ENACT project (EVK2-CT2001-00117) and with support from CNES. GRACE data are provided by the NASA/DLR GRACE Project via the Center for Space Research website in the University of Texas at Austin. The ECCO model is a contribution of the Consortium for Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean funded by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program. This work, as part of the lead author's Ph.D. dissertation, is supported by the Spanish Science and Technology Ministry Projects ESP2001-4533/PE, ESP2005-02212 and REN2003- 01608/MAR, by the Valencian regional government grant ACOMP06-120, and by NASA’s Physical Oceanography Program.

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