A reassessment of global and regional mean sea level trends from TOPEX and Jason-1 altimetry based on revised reference frame and orbits

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Beckley, Brian D ^a   Lemoine, F G ^b   Luthcke, S B ^b   Ray, R D ^b   Zelensky, N P ^a  

^a SGT INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER SATELLITES; ORBITS; RANGE FINDING; SATELLITES;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; MEAN SEA LEVEL TRENDS; REGIONAL SEA LEVEL TREND; SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR); GEOPHYSICAL MODELING; INTERDECADAL VARIABILITY; SATELLITE LASER RANGING;

SEA LEVEL;

DECADAL VARIATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL; TOPEX-POSEIDON; TRACKING; ASSESSMENT METHOD; GEODESY; MODELING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548597142     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030002     Document Type: Article

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