Semi-empirical versus process-based sea-level projections for the twenty-first century

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 735-738

  Orlić, Mirko ^a   Pasarić, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DATA ACQUISITION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880886157     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1877     Document Type: Article

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