Over short periods of time, it can be difficult to isolate sea-level increase in observations as it is hidden by natural shifts in rainfall quantities over ocean and land, which cause temporary drops in the global sea-level curve. Now research shows how to detect the signal, even in short records, by estimating these variations.
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Boening, C. Detecting sea-level rise. Nature Clim Change 4, 327–328 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2205
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