Improved determination of global mean sea level variations using TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1331-1334

  Nerem, R S ^a   Haines, B J ^b   Hendricks, J ^c,d   Minster, J F ^e,h   Mitchum, G T ^f   White, W B ^g  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^e OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GAGES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITES; TIDE GAGES; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR CORRECTION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

ALTIMETER DATA; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; RESIDUAL DRIFTS; SATELLITE ALTIMETER; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEALEVEL CHANGE;

SEA LEVEL;

GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; SATELLITE ALTIMETERS;

ALTIMETER; ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE INSTRUMENT; SATELLITE SENSING; SEA LEVEL VARIATION; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

EID: 0031170746     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01288     Document Type: Article

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