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In this work, EEMD is used to analyze the observed monthly sea level anomalies and detect annual cycle characteristics. Considering that the variations of the annual sea level variation in the Northeast Pacific Ocean are poorly studied, the trend and characteristics of annual sea level amplitudes and related mechanisms in the North Pacific Ocean are investigated using long-term tide gauge records covering 1950\u20132016. The average annual amplitude of coastal sea level exhibits interannual-to-decadal variability within the range of 14\u2013220 mm. The largest value of ~174 mm is observed in the west coast of South China Sea. In the other coastal regions of North Pacific Ocean, the mean annual amplitude is relatively low between 77 and 124 mm for the western coast and 84 and 87 mm for the eastern coast. The estimated trend values for annual sea level amplitudes in the western coastal areas of South China Sea and Northeast Pacific Ocean have statistically decreased over 1952\u20132014 with a range of \u22120.77 mm\u00b7yr\u22121 to \u22120.11 mm\u00b7yr\u22121. Our results suggested that the decreasing annual amplitude in the west coast of South China Sea is in good agreement with the annual mean wind stress associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). This wind phenomenon also explains the temporal variations of annual sea level amplitude in Northeast Pacific Ocean, especially the high correlations since 1980 (R = 0.61\u22120.72).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13040730","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,17]],"date-time":"2021-02-17T04:49:01Z","timestamp":1613537341000},"page":"730","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Annual Sea Level Amplitude Analysis over the North Pacific Ocean Coast by Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7087-270X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wen-Hau","family":"Lan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communications, Navigation and Control Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3449-995X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chung-Yen","family":"Kuo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Li-Ching","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of System Engineering and Naval Architecture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Huan-Chin","family":"Kao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1351","DOI":"10.1007\/s10712-019-09531-1","article-title":"Forcing factors causing sea level changes at the coast","volume":"40","author":"Woodworth","year":"2019","journal-title":"Surv. 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