Revisiting the contemporary sea-level budget on global and regional scales

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1504-1509

  Rietbroek, Roelof ^a   Brunnabend, Sandra Esther ^a,b   Kusche, Jürgen ^a   Schröter, Jens ^b   Dahle, Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Budget; GRACE; Sea level; Steric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957824855     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519132113     Document Type: Article

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