Detecting anthropogenic footprints in sea level rise

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Dangendorf, Sönke ^a   Marcos, Marta ^b   Müller, Alfred ^a   Zorita, Eduardo ^c   Riva, Riccardo ^d   Berk, Kevin ^a   Jensen, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DETECTION METHOD; PROBABILITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPECTRUM; VOLUME CHANGE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; GLACIER; ICE SHEET; MASKING; NOISE; NORTH SEA; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL RISE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 84938124718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8849     Document Type: Article

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