Relative contributions of ocean mass and deep steric changes to sea level rise between 1993 and 2013

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7509-7522

  Purkey, Sarah G ^a,b   Johnson, Gregory C ^a,b   Chambers, Don P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

deep steric sea level; GRACE; regional ocean mass trends; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRACE; MASS TRANSFER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE LASER RANGING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84915820380     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010180     Document Type: Article

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