Sentences with phrase «accurate sea level data»
Satellite altimetry observations, available since the early 1990s, provide more accurate sea level data with nearly global coverage and indicate that since 1993 sea level has been rising at a rate of about 3 millimeters per year.
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Satellite observations available since the early 1990s provide more accurate sea level data with nearly global coverage.
Not exact matches
I am a little puzzled at the trend, but that just means the sea level rise data as commonly presented doesn't paint a complete or accurate picture.
An international team of experts supported by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) has combined data from multiple satellites and aircraft to produce the most comprehensive and accurate assessment to date of ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica and their contributions to sea level rise.
The tide gauges combined with co-located GPS receivers are more accurate (real data) and produces a value around 1.3 to 1.8 mms / year of sea level rise over about 150 sites across the world.
By studying this ancient coral, scientists are hoping to put together the most accurate picture yet of how sea levels have changed over thousands of years, data that can help inform projections of how sea levels may change in the future.
In January 2012, climate researcher Trevor Prowse put questions to the Bureau of Meteorology about the results charted above, making the point that as the 14 tidal stations are mostly free of urban heat effect, all are at sea level and are well scattered around Australia, they may be more accurate than any other land - based data.
The fundamental data sets produced by the icePod system are necessary to support the development of accurate ice sheet models to predict sea level rise.
The project will provide accurate data to inform such activities as storm surge and sea - level rise mapping for the Islands.
Tidal data for the Torres Strait Islands region is insufficiently accurate to manage and respond to events such as storm surge and projected sea level rise.