New estimates of secular sea level rise from tide gauge data and GIA modelling

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1067-1094

  Spada, Giorgio ^a   Galassi, Gaia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Global change from geodesy; Rheology: mantle; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; EARTH'S MANTLE; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; ICE SHEET; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SELECTION CRITERIA; SURFACE LOADING; TIDE GAUGE DATA; TIDE GAUGES; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; LOADING; RHEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

ESTIMATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEODESY; GLACIOISOSTASY; GLOBAL CHANGE; ICE SHEET; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84869087633     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05663.x     Document Type: Article

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