Improving sea level reconstructions using non-sea level measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Hamlington, B D ^a   Leben, R R ^a   Kim, K Y ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; CLIMATE MONITORING; CLIMATE SIGNALS; CYCLOSTATIONARY; DATA SETS; EASTERN PACIFIC; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; MONITORING SIGNALS; OCEAN OBSERVATIONS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURE; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIDE GAUGE DATA; TIME-PERIODS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

SEA LEVEL;

DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIDE GAUGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84868618697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008277     Document Type: Article

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