Long-term variations in global sea level extremes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 8115-8134

  Marcos, Marta ^a   Calafat, Francisco M ^b   Berihuete, Ángel ^c   Dangendorf, Sönke ^d  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

extremes; sea level; state space models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SAMPLING; SEA LEVEL; TIDE GAUGE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84957991482     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JC011173     Document Type: Article

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