Contribution of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation to global mean sea level trends

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 5171-5175

  Hamlington, B D ^a   Leben, R R ^a   Strassburg, M W ^a   Nerem, R S ^a   Kim, K Y ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

GMSL; PDO; reconstructions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; GMSL; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PDO; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA-LEVEL RECONSTRUCTION;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL);

SEA LEVEL;

ACCELERATION; ALTIMETRY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL CHANGE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 84884825804     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50950     Document Type: Article

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