Some important issues to do with long-term sea level change

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

Volumn 364, Issue 1841, 2006, Pages 787-803

  Woodworth, Philip L ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global observing systems; Sea level changes; Tide gauges

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

GLOBAL OBSERVATION NETWORKS; GLOBAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS; LONG-TERM CHANGES; ROYAL SOCIETY; SEALEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGES;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 33645578317     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1737     Document Type: Article

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