Sentences with phrase «land height changes»

Land height changes, for example due to isostatic rebound, can also affect local sea levels.

This information relates to Britain and Europe during Roman times onwards, but includes medieval castles with sea entrances now high and dry due to sea level changes, not land height changes.

They used satellite data from 2007 to 2010 to work out how land heights changed in the Bay area at this time.

They used satellite data from 2007 to 2010 to work out how land heights changed around the bay.

Not exact matches

This fall, NASA will launch the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2), which will use a highly advanced laser instrument to measure the changing elevation of ice around the world, providing a view of the height of Earth's ice with greater detail than previously possible.

It's a noticeable change: the skater dude's T - shirt lifts as he lands from a great height, every movement of the board is crystal clear and tricks are much more easily discernible from one another.

In order to use tidal gauges to reliably estimate global sea level changes, researchers have to successfully separate the components of shifting land heights and local sea level variability from any global trends.

SLR satellite data includes things such as the «GIA Adjustment» — which is the amount of SLR that there would have been if the ocean basin hadn't increased in volume and in the case of this new study, how much higher the sea surface would have been if it had not been suppressed by the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, another correction for ENSO / PDO «computed via a joint cyclostationary empirical orthogonal function (CSEOF) analysis of altimeter GMSL, GRACE land water storage, and Argo - based thermosteric sea level from 2005 to present», as well as other additions and adjustments — NONE OF WHICH can actually be found manifested in any change to the physical Sea Surface Height.»

Further up the thread we were having a discussion about the vital importance of taking into account local changes in land height, whether it is sinking or rising or static, irrespective of what the water levels itself are doing.

Running 60 - month averages of European air temperature at a height of two metres over land (left - hand axis) according to different datasets: ERA - Interim (Copernicus Climate Change Service, ECMWF); GISTEMP (NASA); HadCRUT4 (Met Office Hadley Centre), NOAAGlobalTemp (NOAA); and JRA - 55 (JMA).

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Potential for error exists in determining the ellipsoid, the height of the satellite, in the actual measurements, and in the changes going on in the ocean and on the land.