Pressure effects on past regional sea level trends and variability in the German Bight

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1169-1186

  Albrecht, Frauke ^a   Weisse, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

German Bight; Regional mean sea level trends; Regional mean sea level variability; Wind and pressure effects

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; GERMAN BIGHT; INDEX OF AGREEMENTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM CHANGES; LONG-TERM TREND; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA LEVEL TRENDS; SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE FIELDS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; TIME-PERIODS;

LINEAR REGRESSION; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

SEA LEVEL;

ANNUAL VARIATION; LINEARITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PREDICTION; PRESSURE EFFECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84865685179     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-012-0557-1     Document Type: Article

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