Anthropogenic forcing dominates global mean sea-level rise since 1970

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 701-705

  Slangen, Aimée B A ^a,b   Church, John A ^a   Agosta, Cecile ^c   Fettweis, Xavier ^c   Marzeion, Ben ^d   Richter, Kristin ^e  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; FLOODING; GREENHOUSE GAS; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84975797281     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2991     Document Type: Article

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