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Regular Research Article 08 Mar 2013 RMIT University, P.O. Box 71, Bundoora VIC, 3083 Melbourne, Australia The analysis of high quality tide gauge records of the Pacific spanning more than 100 yr permits to evidence the multi-decadal oscillations of sea levels and their influence on the sea level rate of rise that may be computed by a linear fitting with different time windows. Without at least 65–70 yr of recorded data, the computed sea level rate of rise differs considerably from the actual long-term sea level rate of rise. These high quality long-term tide gauges show a non-accelerating oscillating behaviour with different periodicities in different locations. This result is consistent with a picture of locally and globally oscillating sea levels without any major sign of sharp positive accelerations at the present time. Citation: Parker, A.: Natural oscillations and trends in long-term tide gauge records from the Pacific, Pattern Recogn. Phys., 1, 11-23, doi:10.5194/prp-1-11-2013, 2013. |
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