Improved sea level record over the satellite altimetry era (1993–2010) from the Climate Change Initiative project

Ocean Science Ocean Sci. 1812-0792 2015 11 1 Improved sea level record over the satellite altimetry era (1993–2010) from the Climate Change Initiative project M. Ablain A. Cazenave G. Larnicol M. Balmaseda P. Cipollini Y. Faugère M. J. Fernandes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0946-0092 O. Henry J. A. Johannessen P. Knudsen O. Andersen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6685-3415 J. Legeais B. Meyssignac https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6325-9843 N. Picot M. Roca S. Rudenko https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-3827 M. G. Scharffenberg https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5948-9849 D. Stammer G. Timms J. Benveniste https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0307-1934

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