Sea-level rise at tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean islands

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 155-168

  Church, John A ^a,b   White, Neil J ^a,b   Hunter, John R ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

climate change; Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean; sea level changes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GLACIATION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; ISLAND; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TOPEX-POSEIDON; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

FUNAFUTI; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MALDIVES; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); TUVALU;

EID: 33747825085     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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