Timescales for detecting a significant acceleration in sea level rise

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Haigh, Ivan D ^a,b   Wahl, Thomas ^c,d   Rohling, Eelco J ^a,e   Price, René M ^f   Pattiaratchi, Charitha B ^b   Calafat, Francisco M ^g   Dangendorf, Sönke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DETECTION METHOD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIMESCALE; VULNERABILITY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GAUGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; TIDE;

EID: 84898657727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4635     Document Type: Article

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