A heuristic evaluation of long-term global sea level acceleration

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4166-4172

  Spada, Giorgio ^a   Olivieri, Marco ^b   Galassi, Gaia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

sea level change

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CURRENT ESTIMATES; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; SCHOLARLY JOURNALS; SEA-LEVEL RECONSTRUCTION; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SECULAR ACCELERATIONS; SOCIAL IMPLICATION;

SEA LEVEL;

FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; HEURISTICS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84931578500     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063837     Document Type: Article

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