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PAPERBACK price:$54.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF Report Brief PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Mapping the Zone:Improving Flood Map Accuracy Sea-Level Change Other Related Titles Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future (2012) Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (BESR) Ocean Studies Board (OSB) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix G: Acronyms and Abbreviations." Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012. Please select a format: Page 201   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 201 Front Matter (R1-R14) Summary (1-8) 1 Introduction (9-22) 2 Measured Global Sea-Level Rise (23-32) 3 Contributions to Global Sea-Level Rise (33-54) 4 Sea-Level Variability and Change off the California, Oregon, and Washington Coasts (55-82) 5 Projections of Sea-Level Change (83-108) 6 Responses of the Natural Shoreline to Sea-Level Rise (109-136) References (137-152) Appendix A: Vertical Land Motion and Sea-Level Data Along the West Coast of the United States (153-162) Appendix B: Sea-Level Rise in the Northeast Pacific Ocean (163-174) Appendix C: Analysis of Sea-Level Fingerprint Effects (175-178) Appendix D: Long-Term Tide Gage Stability From Leveling Data (179-190) Appendix E: Cryosphere Extrapolations (191-196) Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members (197-200) Appendix G: Acronyms and Abbreviations (201-202)

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Appendix G Acronyms and Abbreviations CGPS continuous Global Positioning System lidar light detection and ranging CMIP 3 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 MBT mechanical bathythermograph CO2 carbon dioxide MTJ Mendocino Triple Junction CO-OPS Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction DCW Digital Chart of the World NGS National Geodetic Survey DOFsdegrees-of-freedom NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric DORIS Doppler Orbitography and Radio- Administration positioning Integrated by Satellite NRC National Research Council ENSO El Niño-Southern Oscillation PDO Pacific Decadal Oscillation PSMSL Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level FEMA Federal Emergency Management Administration RMS root mean square GCM general circulation model SLA sea-level anomaly GIA glacial isostatic adjustment SLE sea-level equivalent GLIMS Global Land Ice Measurements from SLP sea-level pressure Space SOPAC Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center GLM generalized linear model SWH significant wave height GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System GPS Global Positioning System USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate USGS U.S. Geological Survey Experiment VLM vertical land motion IB inverse barometer InSAR interferometric synthetic aperture radar WGI World Glacier Inventory IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change XBT expendable bathythermograph 201

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