Trends in high sea levels of German North Sea gauges compared to regional mean sea level changes

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 111-120

  Mudersbach, Christoph ^a   Wahl, Thomas ^a,b   Haigh, Ivan D ^c,d   Jensen, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extreme sea levels; German Bight; Mean sea level; North Sea; Storm surges

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LINEAR PROGRAMING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMANY; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84882705538     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.06.016     Document Type: Article

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