Regional biases in absolute sea-level estimates from tide gauge data due to residual unmodeled vertical land movement

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  King, Matt A ^a   Keshin, Maxim ^a   Whitehouse, Pippa L ^b   Thomas, Ian D ^a   Milne, Glenn ^c   Riva, Riccardo E M ^d  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL;

EARTH MODELS; EARTH STRUCTURES; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT; GLOBAL SET; REFERENCE FRAME; SEALEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE DATA; TIDE GAUGES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; EARTH STRUCTURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLACIOISOSTASY; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

EID: 84864435047     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052348     Document Type: Article

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