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Edited by Anny Cazenave, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France, and approved July 26, 2016 (received for review March 16, 2016)
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- Published in issue October 25, 2016.
- Published first October 10, 2016.
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- aDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544;
- bDepartment of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854;
- cRutgers Energy Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854;
- dInstitute of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901;
- eDepartment of Marine & Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901;
- fEarth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798;
- gAsian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798;
- hCoastal Systems Group, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543
Edited by Anny Cazenave, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France, and approved July 26, 2016 (received for review March 16, 2016)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: nlin{at}princeton.edu.
Author contributions: N.L., B.P.H., and J.P.D. designed research; N.L. and R.E.K. performed research; N.L. analyzed data; and N.L., R.E.K., B.P.H., and J.P.D. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: The data reported in this paper have been deposited at arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01fn107142z.
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