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Figure 1: Apparent accelerations of sea level for records >10 years in length. Low-frequency variations of sea level heavily corrupt the computation of an acceleration parameter for records less than about 50 years long. From Douglas (1992).

 
Figure 2: Comparison between observed and computed sea level fluctuations for Bermuda. The observed sea level record, adjusted to constant atmospheric pressure, is shown by the solid curve. From Sturges and Hong (1994).