Sea-Level Change.

Sea-Level Change.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Staff, National Research Council
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : National Academies Press, 1900.
Subjects:
Sea level.
Coast changes.
sea level.
Coast changes
Sea level
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Sea-Level Change""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""OVERVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PROCESSES AND FEEDBACKS""; ""Time Scales of Sea-Level Change""; ""Sea Level and the Geoid""; ""Land Elevation Changes""; ""Effects of Atmospheric Pressure, Winds, and Ocean Currents""; ""Changes in the Mass of Ocean Water""; ""Eustatic Effects of Changes in Liquid Water on Land""; ""Changes in the Volume of Water Without Changes in Mass""; ""Volume of Ocean Basins""; ""RECORD OF CURRENT AND PAST CHANGE""
  • ""Historic and Tide-Gauge Recordsâ€?The Past 100 Years""""The Past 18,000 Years""; ""The Past 250,000 Years""; ""The Past 250 Million Years""; ""From 250 to 2500 Ma""; ""DO CHANGES IN SEA LEVEL CAUSE CHANGES IN CLIMATE?""; ""FORECASTING CHANGES IN SEA LEVEL RELATED TO GREENHOUSE GASES""; ""HOW CAN WE IMPROVE THE MEASUREMENT OF SEA-LEVEL CHANGE?""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""THE RECORD""; ""1 Recent Changes in Sea Level: A Summary""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SOME PRIOR STUDIES OF ""GLOBAL"" SEALEVEL""; ""THE DATA""; ""Sources and Distribution""; ""Instruments""; ""Potential Problems""
  • ""ESTIMATES OF RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE: KEY STATION APPROACH""""Methods""; ""Results""; ""ESTIMATES OF RSL CHANGE: AREA AVERAGE APPROACH""; ""Methods""; ""Results""; ""Cautions: Nonuniqueness""; ""DISCUSSION: POSSIBLE CAUSES""; ""Subsidence Argument""; ""Global Warming""; ""Glacial Retreat""; ""Ocean Circulation Changes""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""2 North Atlantic Sea Level and Circulation""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""OBSERVED SEA-LEVEL VARIABILITY""; ""Western Boundary""; ""Eastern Boundary""; ""FORCING FUNCTIONS""; ""Air Pressure""; ""Wind Stress""
  • ""Wind-Forced Ocean Circulation""""Thermohaline Changes""; ""MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS""; ""Eastern Boundary""; ""Western Boundary""; ""SECULAR CHANGES OF SEA LEVEL""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""References""; ""3 Large-Scale Coherence of Sea Level at Very Low Frequencies""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SEA LEVEL ALONG A SINGLE COAST""; ""SEA LEVEL AT SAN FRANCISCO AND CASCAIS""; ""SEA-LEVEL SIGNALS FROM PROPAGATING OCEAN WAVES""; ""Pacific Ocean""; ""Atlantic Ocean""; ""SAN FRANCISCO TO CASCAIS""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""References""
  • ""4 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Relative Sea-Level Change""""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE GLOBAL MODEL OF GLACIAL ISOSTASY""; ""Postglacial Variations of Relative Sea Level""; ""The Free-Air Gravity Anomaly over Centers of Post-Glacial Rebound""; ""PLEISTOCENE DEGLACIATION AND EARTH ROTATION""; ""SECULAR VARIATIONS OF RELATIVE SEA LEVEL WITH GLACIAL ISOSTASY REMOVED""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""5 Quaternary Sea-Level Change""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""APPROPRIATE (AND INAPPROPRIATE) TECHNOLOGY""; ""Stratigraphic Context of Study Materials""

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