Tropical Pacific spatial trend patterns in observed sea level: Internal variability and/or anthropogenic signature?

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 787-802

  Meyssignac, B ^a   Salas Y Melia, D ^b   Becker, M ^a,d   Llovel, W ^c   Cazenave, A ^a  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d IRD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; GREENHOUSE GAS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84859891727     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-787-2012     Document Type: Article

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