An increase in the rate of global mean sea level rise since 2010

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3998-4006

  Yi, Shuang ^a   Sun, Wenke ^a   Heki, Kosuke ^b   Qian, An ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GMSL; GRACE; La Ni a; sea level budget; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BUDGET CONTROL; GEODETIC SATELLITES;

GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; GMSL; GRACE; LAND ICES; LAND WATER STORAGE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

SEA LEVEL;

ARGO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRACE; LA NINA; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 84931562988     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063902     Document Type: Article

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