Relative and absolute sea level rise in western Canada and northwestern United States from a combined tide gauge-GPS analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Mazzotti, Stephane ^a,b   Jones, Casey ^a   Thomson, Richard E ^c  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEA LEVEL; TIDE GAGES;

GPS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDE GAUGE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58949088651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004835     Document Type: Article

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