Recent Progress in Understanding and Projecting Regional and Global Mean Sea Level Change

Current Climate Change Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 224-246

  Clark, Peter U ^a   Church, John A ^b   Gregory, Jonathan M ^c,d   Payne, Anthony J ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global mean sea level; Regional sea level; Sea level observations; Sea level projections

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010922236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40641-015-0024-4     Document Type: Review

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