BOOK REVIEW | Sea Level Rise: History and Consequences
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Contemporary sea level rise.
Measuring sea level change and understanding its causes has considerably improved in the recent years, essentially because new in situ and remote sensing observations have become available. Here we report on most recent results on contemporary sea level rise. We first present sea level observations from tide gauges over the twentieth century and from satellite altimetry since the early 1990s. W...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oceanography
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1042-8275
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2002.16