Considerations for estimating the 20th century trend in global mean sea level

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4102-4109

  Hamlington, B D ^a   Thompson, P R ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

GMSL; sea level reconstruction; tide gauge

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL; TIDE GAGES; TIDES;

GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; GMSL; HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; SEA-LEVEL RECONSTRUCTION; TIDE GAUGES; VERTICAL LAND MOTIONS;

SEA LEVEL;

DATA SET; GLOBAL CHANGE; QUALITY CONTROL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

EID: 84931439556     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064177     Document Type: Article

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