Is sea level rise accelerating in the Chesapeake Bay? A demonstration of a novel new approach for analyzing sea level data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Ezer, Tal ^a   Corlett, William Bryce ^a,b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ANALYSIS METHOD; CHESAPEAKE BAY; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; HILBERT HUANG TRANSFORMATION; LAND SUBSIDENCE; MEAN SEA LEVEL; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OSCILLATING MODES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA LEVEL TRENDS;

SEA LEVEL;

BAY; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBSIDENCE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867507123     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053435     Document Type: Article

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