An extreme event of sea-level rise along the Northeast coast of North America in 2009-2010

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Goddard, Paul B ^a   Yin, Jianjun ^a   Griffies, Stephen M ^b   Zhang, Shaoqing ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OVERTURN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GAS; GULF STREAM; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEASHORE; TIDE; UNITED STATES; WIND;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923577896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7346     Document Type: Article

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