BACKGROUND A beneficial effect was observed in patients with psoriasis vulgaris following balneotherapy with Dead Sea bath salt. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the possible role of trace elements in the effectiveness of balneotherapy. METHODS Serum levels of 11 trace elements were analyzed in 23 patients with psoriasis vulgaris who participated in a double-blind controlled study of balneotherapy wi...

Abstract. Although the global-mean sea level (GMSL) rose over twentieth century with a positive contribution from thermosteric and barystatic (ice sheets glaciers) sources, driving processes of GMSL changes during pre-industrial Common Era (PCE; 1–1850 CE) are largely unknown. Here, contributions glacier ice sheet mass variations ocean thermal expansion to in (1–2000 estimated based on simulati...

Two of the most important topics in Sea Level Science are addressed in this paper. One is concerned with the evidence for the apparent acceleration in the rate of global sea level change between the 19 and 20 centuries and, thereby, with the question of whether the 20 century sea level rise was a consequence of an accelerated climate change of anthropogenic origin. An acceleration is indeed obs...

Regional sea level changes can deviate substantially from those of the global mean, can vary on a broad range of timescales, and in some regions can even lead to a reversal of long-term global mean sea level trends. The underlying causes are associated with dynamic variations in the ocean circulation as part of climate modes of variability and with an isostatic adjustment of Earth's crust to pa...

Nature of the indicators and depositional ranges. The sea level indicators take a variety of forms, including: constructional coral terraces that provide both geomorphological and ecological information; coral biofacies in limestones that provide ecological but not geomorphological information; erosional features such as wave-cut terraces, sea caves, bioerosional notches, and raised beaches; an...

The long-term sea level change during 1993 – 2008 is investigated in the Malaysian Seas from satellite altimetry data of the Topex, Jason-1, ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat missions. During the past two decades, satellite altimeter has provided its capability in measuring the global mean of sea level with precision better than 1 mm/year. Sea level data retrieval and reduction were carried out using Ra...

In this study, we apply probabilistic estimates of mean sea level (MSL) rise and a sub-set regional climate model ensemble simulations to force numerical the southern North Sea, downscaling projected variability Elbe estuary that serves as prototype for an industrialised meso-tidal estuary. The specific forcing combination enables localised projection future estuarine hydrodynamics accounting s...

A number of global surface wind datasets are available that are commonly used to examine climate variability or trends and as boundary conditions for ocean circulation models. However, discrepancies exist among these products. This study uses observed Archiving, Validation, and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic (AVISO) sea surface height anomalies (SSHAs) as a means to help constrain th...