Global and regional sea level change during the 20th century

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7493-7508

  Wenzel, Manfred ^a   Schröter, Jens ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

altimetry; neural network; reconstruction; sea level; tide gauge

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84915746165     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC009900     Document Type: Article

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