Reconstruction of regional mean sea level anomalies from tide gauges using neural networks

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Wenzel, Manfred ^a   Schröter, Jens ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS; TIDE GAGES; TIDES;

20TH CENTURY; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ANNUAL CYCLE; COASTAL SEA LEVEL; DATA GAP; GAP FILLING; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; MEAN SEA LEVEL; NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES; OCEAN BASINS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN; TIDE GAUGES; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

SEA LEVEL;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; OCEAN BASIN; OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDE GAUGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77955864114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005630     Document Type: Article

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