Evidence for long-term memory in sea level

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5530-5537

  Dangendorf, Sönke ^a   Rybski, Diego ^b   Mudersbach, Christoph ^c   Müller, Alfred ^a   Kaufmann, Edgar ^a   Zorita, Eduardo ^d   Jensen, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

detection and attribution; long term correlations; persistence; sea level rise; tide gauges

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; TIDE GAGES;

DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; LONG-TERM CORRELATIONS; PERSISTENCE; SEA LEVEL RISE; TIDE GAUGES; ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CURRENT ESTIMATES; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; NATURAL VARIABILITY;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; ICE CAP; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84905310727     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060538     Document Type: Article

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