Estimating rates of acceleration based on the 157-year record of sea level from San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 43-51

  Breaker, Laurence C ^a   Ruzmaikin, Alexander ^b  

^a MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

acceleration; Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition; inflection points; polynomial regression; residual; Sea level; truncated record

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872931809     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-12-00048.1     Document Type: Article

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