An anomalous recent acceleration of global sea level rise

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 5772-5781

  Merrifield, M A ^a   Merrifield, S T ^a   Mitchum, G T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; GLOBAL TRENDS; MOTION COMPONENTS; MOTION CORRECTION; SAMPLING ERRORS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA LEVEL TRENDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STANDARD ERRORS; TIDE GAUGE DATA; TIDE GAUGES; TIME SEGMENTS; UPPER OCEAN;

TIDE GAGES;

SEA LEVEL;

ACCELERATION; DECADAL VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; SAMPLING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL; TIDE GAUGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 77649295563     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2985.1     Document Type: Article

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