Sea level variations in the regional seas around Taiwan

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-39

  Tseng, Yu Heng ^a   Breaker, Larry C ^b   Chang, Emmy T Y ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decadal oscillation; ENSO; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TREND ANALYSIS;

TAIWAN;

EID: 77749280257     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-010-0003-2     Document Type: Article

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