Past and future sea-level rise along the coast of North Carolina, USA

Climatic Change

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 693-707

  Kopp, Robert E ^a   Horton, Benjamin P ^a,b   Kemp, Andrew C ^c   Tebaldi, Claudia ^d  

^a USA   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIDE GAGES;

CENTENNIAL VARIABILITY; EXPERT ASSESSMENT; EXPERT ELICITATION; NORTH CAROLINA , USA; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEA-LEVEL RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC UPLIFT;

SEA LEVEL;

ARCH; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; COASTAL ZONE; DEGLACIATION; FLOOD; GLACIOISOSTASY; HOLOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; UPLIFT;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WILMINGTON [NORTH CAROLINA];

EID: 84942550201     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1451-x     Document Type: Article

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