Long-term surface elevation changes in German North Sea salt marshes

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 98, Issue , 2012, Pages 71-83

  Suchrow, Sigrid ^a   Pohlmann, Nina ^a   Stock, Martin ^b   Jensen, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Schleswig Holstein Agency for Coastal Defence   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accretion; Mean high tide; Regression tree analysissea level rise; Sedimentation; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SALT; SEDIMENTATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 84855873012     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.11.031     Document Type: Article

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