Understanding measured sea level rise by data assimilation

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 614, 2006, Pages

  Wenzel, Manfred ^a   Schröter, Jens ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EUSTATIC RISE; GLOBAL THERMOSTERIC SEA; STERIC EFFECTS;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 33845726551     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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