The rate of sea-level rise

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 358-361

  Cazenave, Anny ^a   Dieng, Habib Boubacar ^a   Meyssignac, Benoit ^a   Von Schuckmann, Karina ^b   Decharme, Bertrand ^c   Berthier, Etienne ^a  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84899580687     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2159     Document Type: Article

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