Comparison of satellite altimetry to tide gauge measurement of sea level:...

Journal of Climate;  November 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......decays more rapidly than the tide gauge sea level signature and so isostatic...therefore mixed into the tide gauge sea level signature. To understand...perturb the geoid on which sea level lies. Neither tide gauge nor satellite sea ...

Detecting accelerated sea level rise. (researching causes of long-term...

Science News;  September 19, 1992 ;     232 words ...The global sea level is currently rising...an acceleration in sea level rise. Researchers who study sea level use records from coastal...acceleration in the rate of sea level rise, but some have suggested that tide gauge records in the next...any single ...

Estimates of the Regional Distribution of Sea Level Rise over the...

Journal of Climate;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......with historical tide gauge data to estimate...distributions of large-scale sea level variability and...estimate global sea level covariance functions...demonstrate that tide gauge records will continue...twentieth century sea level rise are primarily...on ...

Decadal Sea Level Variability in the South Pacific in a Global...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......late 1970s and sea level rise in the late...consistent with tide gauge and satellite...complementary sea level anomaly (SLA) datasets derived from tide gauge, satellite altimeter...South Pacific sea level. Tide gauge observations are...

A Study of Delays in Making Tide Gauge Data Available to Tsunami Warning...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......different types of tide gauge (float, radar, acoustic...surges, and long-term sea level change (see Aarup...tsunami, the Global Sea Level Observing System...defined a "baseline tide gauge specification...warning centers and sea level data banks. It is ...

Interdecadal Sea Level Fluctuations at Hawaii

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......recorded interdecadal sea level variations that are...last decade. Hawaii sea level is correlated with...shows that high (low) sea level phases around Hawaii...consistent with observed sea level anomalies, suggesting that sea level at Hawaii ...

Long-lost records confirm rising sea level.

M2 Presswire;  January 21, 2003 ;     596 words ......which Australian regional sea level can be measured in 10...In 1837, a rudimentary tide gauge was made by the amateur...and 1842) of average sea level was the start of a scientific...possible rises of global sea level, with attendant increased...

Low-Frequency Sea Level Variability and the Inverted Barometer Effect

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......to a global tide gauge dataset, both...importantly to the sea level variance in...negative biases in tide gauge estimates of global mean sea level rise that are...analyzing the sea level record. Contrasting...variability in the tide gauge ...

Primary Benchmark of British Sea Level

The Independent - London;  July 30, 1994 ;     263 words ......Benchmark of British Mean Sea Level, a large bronze bolt in...be at, or at least near, sea level. I thought I would just...is part of the national tide gauge network, which warns of...April 1921, readings of the sea level were taken every hour. In this way mean ...

Effects of unresolved high-frequency signals in altimeter records inferred...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Rapid sea level signals are poorly...analyze hourly sea level records from a...inferred from the tide gauge analysis, in the...frequency (HF) sea level variability. Although...extensive set of tide gauges to examine...aliases. The in situ sea ...

China's Sea Level 51 mm Higher in 2000

Xinhua News Agency;  March 30, 2001 ;     209 words ......Administration announced Friday that the coastal sea level in 2000 was 51 millimeters higher than...oceanic areas witnessed a rapid rise in sea level while northern areas had a comparatively...Chen Shibiao. Chen said that the general sea level would continue to rise until 2003, ...

Sea Level Changes and Tsunamis, Environmental Stress and Migration...

Internationales Asien Forum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Natural phenomena like rapid changes in sea level and tsunami events may pose an extra...general flooding due to a rapidly rising sea level. In this scenario, the Maldives would...dynamic sea surface is the actual mean sea level as given by a number of dynamic factors...

NASA Satellites Measure and Monitor Sea Level.

PR Newswire;  July 7, 2005 ;     689 words ......expertise to understand the rate at which sea level is changing, some of the mechanisms that drive those changes and the effects that sea level change may have worldwide. It's estimated...potentially impacted by a one-meter increase in sea level, said Dr. Waleed Abdalati, head of ...

Sea Level Rise: A Threat to the Coast of Bangladesh

Internationales Asien Forum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......mainly responsible for global warming and sea level rise is die burning of fossil fuels. Deforestation...vehicles (555 million of diem cars). 1.2 World sea level rise scenario Global sea level has risen by between 10 and 25 cm over die...increase in global mean temperature (IPCC, ...

Volcanic suppression: major eruptions can reduce sea level.(This Week)

Science News;  November 5, 2005 ;     466 words ......team of scientists now suggests, lower sea level worldwide. The tiny particles of broken...it cooled, with a concomitant drop in sea level. To estimate the effects of volcanic eruptions on sea level, Church and his colleagues used tide...