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17 Dec 2014
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A century of sea level data and the UK's 2013/14 storm surges: an assessment of extremes and clustering using the Newlyn tide gauge record
M. P. Wadey
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Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
I. D. Haigh
Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering and the UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
J. M. Brown
National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK
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