emergence in the north (0.5 mm/year, the latter an average of two stations). 

 Australian tide-gage data cannot define unambiguously past eustatic sea-level 

 history because of this considerable spatial non-homogeneity in relative sea- 

 level rise, but they may be useful for monitoring possible future increases in 

 rate of global sea- level rise. Higher- frequency fluctuations in relative sea- 

 levels show relative peaks at 20, 12, and 6 years, with significant energy at 

 higher frequencies as well. Higher frequency fluctuations correlate with 

 patterns of El Nino/Southern Oscillation. During El Nino events, yearly- 

 averaged sea- levels of Australia fall, although not all local minima in 

 relative sea- levels correspond with El Ninos . The resultant drop in relative 

 sea- levels represents a balance between lower sea- levels due to raised 

 atmospheric pressure with coincident lowered water temperatures, and higher 

 steric sea-levels due to increased precipitation and runoff (for those 

 stations located in estuaries). (Authors). 



006 BAOCAN, W. 1984. "Sea-Level Change and Beach Process - A Case Study in 

 South Zhejiang Beach," Marine Geophysical Researches . Vol 7, pp 307-317. 



This paper describes Holocene sea- level changes off the coast of China. 

 The evidence concerning low sea- level during the last glacial phase, Holocene 

 marine transgression which was discovered from sea bottom in East China Sea 

 and China's bordering seas, and their adjacent coastal areas, where, by 

 drilling, relic sediment, peat deposit, and mollusc shell fossils have been 

 obtained, and their dates are deduced through measurement of radiocarbon (C'*) , 

 identified that low sea- level about 15,000 years ago stood in the depth of 

 150 m below the present level in East China Sea, and that the subsequent 

 transgression carried the sea up to the present sea- level 6,000 years ago, 

 when the present China's coast and other continent's coasts were outlined. 



Due to a number of factors, the sea- level oscillates seasonally in the 

 border sea of China. Generally, the annual range of the seasonal changes in 

 sea- level is about 35 m off the south Zhejiang coast, where the highest value 

 of 20 cm occurs in September, and the lowest of -15 cm occurs in March. The 

 reason may be mainly due to the seasonal variations of climate and river 

 run-off, as well as the Taiwan Warm Current. Similar seasonal oscillations in 

 sea- level also occur in Bohai Gulf, Yellow Sea, East China Sea and the South 

 China Sea. 



The beach response of south Zhejiang is strongly affected by the 

 seasonal oscillations in sea-level. The width of beach is 4 to 6 km, the 

 slope is approximately in 1:1000. If the sea-level rises or falls 1 cm, the 

 beach submergence or emergence is led to be about 10 m in width. As a result, 

 the relative equilibrium of beach will be changed by the seasonal oscillations 

 in sea-level. (Modified Abstract). 



007 BARNETT, T. P. 1983. "Global Sea-Level: Estimating and Explaining 

 Apparent Changes," Proceedings of Coastal Zone '83 . Vol III, pp 2777-2783. 



A new analysis of "global" sea- level has been made that largely avoids 

 space/time bias of previous works. A coherent pattern of increasing relative 

 sea-level (RSL) was found to exist on average at all stations analyzed between 



