Determining sea level change in the German Bight

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2037-2050

  Albrecht, Frauke ^a   Wahl, Thomas ^b   Jensen, Jürgen ^b   Weisse, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accelerating sea level rise; Data homogenisation; German Bight; Reconstruction methods; Regional mean sea level changes

Indexed keywords

GERMAN BIGHT; HOMOGENISATION; MEAN SEA LEVEL; RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; SEA LEVEL RISE;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; TIDE GAGES; TIME SERIES;

SEA LEVEL;

DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; DETECTION METHOD; HOMOGENEITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CUXHAVEN; GERMAN BIGHT; GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84855975084     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0462-z     Document Type: Article

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