Long-term variability and trends of sea level storminess and extremes in European Seas

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 71, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Vilibić, Ivica ^a   Šepić, Jadranka ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Europe; long term series; sea level; trends; variability

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SEA LEVEL; THUNDERSTORM; TIDE GAUGE;

EUROPE;

EID: 77249132167     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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