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Title:

Understanding sea-level rise and variability / edited by John A. Church ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xxvi, 428 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Sea level.

Other Authors:

Church, John, 1951-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Impacts of and responses to sea-level rise -- A first-order assessment of the impact of long-term trends in extreme sea levels on offshore structures and coastal refineries -- Paleoenvironmental records, geophysical modeling, and reconstruction of sea-level trends and variability on centennial and longer timescales -- Modern sea-level-change estimates -- Ocean temperature and salinity contributions to global and regional sea-level change -- Cryospheric contributions to sea-level rise and variability -- Terrestrial water-storage contributions to sea-level rise and variability -- Geodetic observations and global reference frame contributions to understanding sea-level rise and variability -- Surface mass loading on a dynamic Earth : complexity and contamination in the geodetic analysis of global sea-level trends -- Past and future change in extreme sea levels and waves -- Observing systems needed to address sea-level rise and variability -- Sea-level rise and variability : synthesis and outlook for the future.

ISBN:

1444334522 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781444334524 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1444334514
9781444334517

OCLC:

(OCoLC)606234376

LCCN:

2010012130

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)