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Acta Oceanol. Sin ., 2013, Vol. 32, No. 10, P. 16-23 DOI: 10.1007/s13131-013-0361-x E-mail: hyxbe@263.net Assessing the global averaged sea-level budget from 2003 to 2010 1∗ 1 1 1 1 LI Juan , ZUO Juncheng , CHEN Meixiang , TAN Wei , YANG Yiqiu 1 Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Coastal Disaster and Defence, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China Received 23 June 2012; accepted 9 November 2012 ©The Chinese Society of Oceanography and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 Abstract A global mass balance (Greenland and Antarctica ice sheet mass loss, terrestrial water storage) and differ- ent sea-level components (observed sea-level from satellite altimetry, steric sea-level from Ishii data, and ocean mass from gravity recovery and climate experiment, GRACE) are estimated, in terms of seasonal and interannual variabilities from 2003 to 2010. The results show that a detailed analysis of the GRACE time series over the time period 2003–2010 unambiguously reveals an increase in mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet and Antarctica ice sheet. The mass loss of both ice sheets accelerated at a rate of (392.8±70.0) Gt/a during 2003–2010, which contributed (1.09±0.19) mm/a to the global mean sea-level during this time. The net terrestrial water storage (TWS) trend was negative over the 8 a time span, which gave a small positive contribution of (0.25±0.12) mm/a. The interannual variability of the global mean sea-level was at least part- ly caused by year-to-year variability of land water storage. Estimating GRACE-based ice sheet mass balance and terrestrial water storage by using published estimates for melting glaciers, the results further show that the ocean mass increase since 2003 has resulted half from an enhanced contribution of the polar ice sheets, and half from the combined ice sheet and terrestrial water storage loss. Taking also int