Estimates of the regional distribution of sea level rise over the 1950-2000 period

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2609-2625

  Church, John A ^a   White, Neil J ^a   Coleman, Richard ^b   Lambeck, Kurt ^c   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^d  

^a ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SEA LEVEL; WEATHER SATELLITES;

REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SEA LEVEL RISE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DECADAL VARIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 3042856775     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<2609:EOTRDO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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