Inter-annual and decadal sea level variations in the north-western Pacific marginal seas

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 105, Issue , 2012, Pages 4-21

  Marcos, Marta ^a   Tsimplis, Michael N ^b   Calafat, Francesc M ^c  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATIC INDEX; COASTAL SITES; COASTAL TIDE GAUGES; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EAST CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; JAPAN/EAST SEAS; MARGINAL SEAS; MEAN SEA LEVEL; OKHOTSK; OKHOTSK SEA; OUT OF PHASE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA LEVEL VARIABILITY; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; STERIC SEA LEVEL; TIDE GAUGES; YELLOW SEA;

CLIMATOLOGY; TIDE GAGES;

SEA LEVEL;

ALTIMETRY; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COASTAL ZONE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DECADAL VARIATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE;

EAST CHINA SEA; JAPAN; KOREA STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK; TSUSHIMA STRAIT; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 84872617553     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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