Analysis of relative sea level variations and trends in the Chesapeake Bay: Is there evidence for acceleration in sea level rise?

OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE: Harnessing the Power of the Ocean

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ezer, Tal ^a   Corlett, William Bryce ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; climate change; coastal inundation; sea level rise; tide gauge data

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION RATES; ANALYSIS METHOD; CHESAPEAKE BAY; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL INUNDATION; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DIFFERENT SCALE; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; FLOODING RISKS; HAMPTON; HATTERAS; HILBERT HUANG TRANSFORMS; HOTSPOTS; LAND SUBSIDENCE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OSCILLATING MODES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA LEVEL RISE; TIDE GAUGE DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWOODS;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 84873604127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2012.6404794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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