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Overview

Philip L. Woodworth is affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily belongs to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a concentration on Oceanography as well as Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

Woodworth's scholarly work covers several key topics including Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate variability and models, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Coastal and Marine Dynamics.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Marta Marcos, Arne Arns, Ivan D. Haigh, Sebastian Niehüser, and Jürgen Jensen.

Woodworth has contributed articles to a number of publication venues where their work appears regularly. These venues include Ocean Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, Geoscience Data Journal, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans.

Selected recent papers by Woodworth and collaborators are:

  • "Non-linear interaction modulates global extreme sea levels, coastal flood exposure, and impacts" (2020) - Nature Communications
  • "GESLA Version 3: A major update to the global higher-frequency sea-level dataset" (2022) - Geoscience Data Journal
  • "Assessment of Tidal Range Changes in the North Sea From 1958 to 2014" (2020) - Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "A Preindustrial Sea-Level Rise Hotspot Along the Atlantic Coast of North America" (2020) - Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Towards reliable global allowances for sea level rise" (2021) - Global and Planetary Change

Best Publications

  • Changes in Sea Level

    J. A. Church;J. M. Gregory;Philippe Huybrechts;M. Kuhn

  • New Data Systems and Products at the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level

    Simon J. Holgate;Andrew Matthews;Philip L. Woodworth;Lesley J. Rickards

  • Recent Global Sea Level Acceleration Started Over 200 Years Ago

    Svetlana Jevrejeva;J. Moore;J. Moore;A. Grinsted;P. Woodworth

  • Changes in extreme high water levels based on a quasi‐global tide‐gauge data set

    Melisa Menéndez;Philip L. Woodworth

  • Evidence for enhanced coastal sea level rise during the 1990s

    S. J. Holgate;P. L. Woodworth

  • Accuracy assessment of recent ocean tide models

    C. K. Shum;P. L. Woodworth;O. B. Andersen;Gary D. Egbert

  • Sea-Level Science: Understanding Tides, Surges, Tsunamis and Mean Sea-Level Changes

    David Pugh;Philip Woodworth

  • Forcing Factors Affecting Sea Level Changes at the Coast

    Philip L. Woodworth;Angélique Melet;Marta Marcos;Marta Marcos;Richard D. Ray

  • Understanding global sea levels: past, present and future

    John A. Church;John A. Church;Neil J. White;Neil J. White;Thorkild Aarup;W. Stanley Wilson

  • Evidence for the accelerations of sea level on multi-decade and century timescales.

    P. L. Woodworth;N. J. White;N. J. White;S. Jevrejeva;S. J. Holgate

  • Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

    Saleh Abdalla;Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi;Michaël Ablain;Susheel Adusumilli

  • Dedicated gravity field missions—principles and aims

    R. Rummel;G Balmino;J. Johannessen;Pnam Visser

  • A search for accelerations in records of European mean sea level

    P. L. Woodworth

  • Evidence for Systematic Changes in Extreme High Waters since the Mid-1970s

    Philip L. Woodworth;David L. Blackman

  • The Tides They Are a-Changin’: A Comprehensive Review of Past and Future Nonastronomical Changes in Tides, their Driving Mechanisms and Future Implications

    Ivan D. Haigh;Mark D. Pickering;J. A. Mattias Green;Brian K. Arbic

  • Towards a global higher‐frequency sea level dataset

    Philip L. Woodworth;J. R. Hunter;Marta Marcos;P. Caldwell

  • A review of the trends observed in British Isles mean sea level data measured by tide gauges

    P. L. Woodworth;M. N. Tsimplis;R. A. Flather;I. Shennan

  • A survey of recent changes in the main components of the ocean tide

    P.L. Woodworth

  • Observed mean sea level changes around the North Sea coastline from 1800 to present

    Thomas Wahl;Ivan Haigh;Ivan Haigh;Philip L. Woodworth;F. Albrecht

  • Understanding sea level rise and variability

    John Church;Stan Wilson;Philip Woodworth;Thorkild Aarup

  • The Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level

    S. Jevrejeva;S. Holgate;P. L. Woodworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris W. Hughes
Chris W. Hughes University of Liverpool
Svetlana Jevrejeva
Svetlana Jevrejeva National Oceanography Centre
Simon D. P. Williams
Simon D. P. Williams National Oceanography Centre
Guy Wöppelmann
Guy Wöppelmann University of La Rochelle
Anny Cazenave
Anny Cazenave Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales
John A. Church
John A. Church University of New South Wales
Mark A. Merrifield
Mark A. Merrifield University of California, San Diego
Jérôme Benveniste
Jérôme Benveniste University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Marta Marcos
Marta Marcos International Space Science Institute
Gary T. Mitchum
Gary T. Mitchum University of South Florida

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