An Improved 20-Year Arctic Ocean Altimetric Sea Level Data Record

Marine Geodesy

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 146-162

  Cheng, Yongcun ^a,b   Andersen, Ole ^a   Knudsen, Per ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; sea level anomaly; sea level trend

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GYRE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA;

EID: 84919773038     PISSN: 01490419     EISSN: 1521060X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2014.954087     Document Type: Article

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