The 154-year record of sea level at San Francisco: Extracting the long-term trend, recent changes, and other tidbits

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 545-559

  Breaker, Laurence C ^a   Ruzmaikin, Alexander ^b  

^a MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical mode decomposition; ENSO; Inverse barometer correction; Long term trend; Pacific decadal oscillation; Recent changes in sea level; Sea level

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79551581447     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0865-4     Document Type: Article

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