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The mechanisms causing the regional variations in sea-level trends are dominated by ocean temperature and salinity changes, and other processes such as ocean mass redistribution as well as solid Earth\u2019s deformations and gravitational changes in response to past and ongoing mass redistributions caused by land ice melt and terrestrial water storage changes (respectively known as Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) and sea-level fingerprints). Here, we attempt to detect the spatial trend patterns of the fingerprints associated with present-day land ice melt and terrestrial water mass changes, using satellite altimetry-based sea-level grids corrected for the steric component. Although the signal-to-noise ratio is still very low, a statistically significant correlation between altimetry-based sea-level and modelled fingerprints is detected in some ocean regions. We also examine spatial trend patterns in observed GRACE ocean mass corrected for atmospheric and oceanic loading and find that some oceanic regions are dominated by the fingerprints of present-day water mass redistribution.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13224667","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,19]],"date-time":"2021-11-19T08:29:17Z","timestamp":1637310557000},"page":"4667","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Sea-Level Fingerprints Due to Present-Day Water Mass Redistribution in Observed Sea-Level Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4791-8500","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lorena","family":"Moreira","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"International Space Science Institute (ISSI), 3012 Bern, Switzerland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2289-1858","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anny","family":"Cazenave","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Space Science Institute (ISSI), 3012 Bern, Switzerland"},{"name":"Laboratoire d\u2019Etudes en G\u00e9ophysique et Oc\u00e9anographie Spatiales (LEGOS), 31400 Toulouse, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3483-7808","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anne","family":"Barnoud","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Magellium, 31520 Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5405-8441","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianli","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78759-5321, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"309","DOI":"10.1007\/s10712-016-9381-3","article-title":"Evaluation of the Global Mean Sea Level Budget between 1993 and 2014","volume":"38","author":"Chambers","year":"2017","journal-title":"Surv. 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