Refining Water Mass Definitions to Examine the Impact of Steric and Non-Steric Contributions to Sea Level Rise Acceleration in the Sargasso Sea

Dominic Smith1, Rodney J Johnson1, Nicholas Robert Bates2,3, Afonso Goncalves Neto4 and Roderick Bakker2, (1)Arizona State University (ASU)-Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), St George's, Bermuda, (2)Arizona State University (ASU)-Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), St.George's, Bermuda, (3)Arizona State University, School of Ocean Futures, Tempe, United States, (4)Federal University of Santa Catarina, Narragansett, RI, UNITED STATES