Is anthropogenic sea level fingerprint already detectable in the Pacific Ocean?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Palanisamy, H ^a   Meyssignac, B ^a   Cazenave, A ^a,b   Delcroix, T ^a  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b ISSI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

altimetry based sea level; anthropogenic sea level fingerprint; CMIP5 dynamic sea level; internal climate mode; tropical Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PALMPRINT RECOGNITION; SATELLITES; TROPICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ANTHROPOGENIC SEA LEVEL FINGERPRINT; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; INTERNAL CLIMATE; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL VARIABILITY; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

SEA LEVEL;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84971329165     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084024     Document Type: Article

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