Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Periodical sea-level changes
  • The meteorological and oceanographic contribution to sea levels
  • Seasonal variations
  • A world-wide mean sea level and its deviations
  • Long-term (secular) changes in sea level
  • Seiches
  • Tsunamis, earthquakes and mean sea level
  • Determination of the mean sea level from the records
  • Practical aspects of sea-level variations
  • Appendix : A few words about phenomena connected with sea-level changes during the pre-Christian era and their modern explanation.