Geographic Variability of Sea-Level Change

Current Climate Change Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 192-204

  Kopp, Robert E ^a,b   Hay, Carling C ^a,c   Little, Christopher M ^d   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rutgers University   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacial isostatic adjustment; Ocean modeling; Satellite altimetry; Sea level; Sea level fingerprints; Tide gauges

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992305209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40641-015-0015-5     Document Type: Review

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