Long-term sea level trends: Natural or anthropogenic?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5571-5580

  Becker, M ^a   Karpytchev, M ^b   Lennartz Sassinek, S ^c  

^a IRD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

long term persistence; sea level change; tide gauge; trend estimation

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM CORRELATIONS; LONG-TERM PERSISTENCE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGES; TREND ESTIMATION; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; HUMAN INFLUENCES; SEA LEVEL TRENDS; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE;

SEA LEVEL;

CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIDAL MODELING;

EID: 84905313104     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061027     Document Type: Article

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