Unabated global mean sea-level rise over the satellite altimeter era

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 565-568

  Watson, Christopher S ^a   White, Neil J ^b   Church, John A ^b   King, Matt A ^a,c   Burgette, Reed J ^d   Legresy, Benoit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENVISAT; ERROR CORRECTION; ERS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GPS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84929740040     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2635     Document Type: Article

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