The ocean is increasingly seen as a vital component of the climate system. It exchanges with
the atmosphere large quantities of heat, water, gases, particles and momentum. It is an …

Wetlands represent the largest component of the terrestrial biological carbon pool and thus
play an important role in global carbon cycles. Most global carbon budgets, however, have …

Summary 1 We measured sediment elevation and accretion dynamics in mangrove forests
on the islands of Guanaja and Roatan, Honduras, impacted by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 to …

An update is given of the work of the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL)
during the 1990s, a period in which the number of station-years in the data bank grew by …

To aid climate policy decisions, accurate quantitative descriptions of the uncertainty in
climate outcomes under various possible policies are needed. Here, we apply an earth …

Negative connotations of invasive plants worldwide have implicated them as the bearers of
unfavorable ecosystem change. We contrasted 5-yr-old and 20-yr-old Phragmites …

The ice masses of Svalbard cover an area of ca. 36 600 km2, and are thus among the
largest glaciated areas in the Arctic. Annual mass balance measurements have been carried …

The time-series of all available records of seasonal and annual glacier mass balances,
equilibrium line altitude, accumulation area ratio and change in surface area of about 300 …

Although there is a long history of human settlement in coastal zones, until the 20th century,
the level of disturbance to natural processes did not appear to be critical. During the 20th …

Satellite altimeter (Topex/Poseidon, 1992–2001) and tide-gauge measurements are used to
explore the relationship of the sea level of the North Atlantic and neighbouring seas and …