High waters at Liverpool since 1768: The UK's longest sea level record

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1589-1592

  Woodworth, Philip L ^a  

^a Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; TIDES; GEOLOGY; TIME SERIES;

ADJUSTED MEAN HIGH WATER; MEAN SEA LEVEL;

GEOPHYSICS; SEA LEVEL;

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AMSTERDAM; GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION; HIGH WATER; LOW-FREQUENCY; MEAN HIGH WATERS; MEAN SEA LEVEL; SECULAR TREND; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 0033153689     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900323     Document Type: Article

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