Sea level rise
Subtitle: history and consequences
By: [edited by] Bruce C. Douglas, Michael S. Kearney, Stephen P. Leatherman.
Contributors: Douglas, B. C.; Kearney, Michael S.; Leatherman, Stephen P.
Series: International geophysics series -- v. 75
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Sea level
Description: CD-ROM contains: Monthly mean tide gauge data from the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level -- Animated presentation of global sea surface temperature anomalies during the year 1982-1999.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to sea level / Bruce C. Douglas; title: Late Holocene sea level variations / Michael S. Kearney; title: Sea level change in the era of the recording tide gauge / Bruce C. Douglas; title: Global glacial isostatic adjustment and modern instrumental records of relative sea level history / W.R. Peltier; title: Impoundment, groundwater mining, and other hydrologic transformations : impacts on global sea level rise / Vivien Gornitz; title: Observations of sea level change from satellite altimetry / R. Steven Nerem and Gary T. Mitchum; title: Decadal variability of sea level / W. Sturges and B.G. Hong; title: Social and economic costs of sea level rise / Stephen P. Leatherman.