Recent relative sea-level trends: An attempt to quantify the forcing factors

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1841, 2006, Pages 821-844

  Plag, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Global sea level trend; Ice mass changes; Relative sea level trends; Steric sea level changes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXTRAPOLATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIDE GAGES;

COASTAL TIDE GAUGES; EMPIRICAL MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL MODELS; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL SEA-LEVEL TREND; GLOBAL TIDES; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE MASS; ICE SHEET; INFORMATION CONTENTS; MASS CHANGE; MODEL-BASED OPC; OCEAN SURFACES; REGRESSION MODEL; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SCALE; TIDE GAUGES;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645558450     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1739     Document Type: Article

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