Time of emergence for regional sea-level change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1006-1010

  Lyu, Kewei ^a,b   Zhang, Xuebin ^a   Church, John A ^a   Slangen, Aimée B A ^a   Hu, Jianyu ^b  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENSITY; FORECASTING METHOD; GLACIOISOSTASY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

EID: 84908502354     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2397     Document Type: Article

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