Preliminary analysis of acceleration of sea level rise through the twentieth century using extended tide gauge data sets (August 2014)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7645-7659

  Hogarth, Peter ^a  

^a KONGSBERG MARITIME   (Norway)

Author keywords

acceleration; data archaeology; sea level; tide gauge

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARCHAEOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84915749829     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC009976     Document Type: Article

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