Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) compares the historical sea level tide gauge data from Church and White (2011) and recent satellite
altimetry sea level data (orange and red in Figure 4, respectively) to the 2001 and 2007 IPCC report model projections (blue and green in Figure 4, respectively).
Not exact matches
In addition, GOCE
data could be used to help validate satellite
altimetry measurements for an even clearer understanding of ice - sheet and
sea -
level change.
Coastal
altimetry, which provides detailed wave and
sea level data in the coastal zone captured by specialist instruments called radar altimeters on board satellites, is at the heart of the project and scientists from NOC have been at the cutting - edge of this technique.
He has been monitoring
sea levels with satellite
altimetry data and has noticed about a 20 - centimeter difference between the western and eastern tropical Pacific.
Indeed, satellite gravity
data and radar
altimetry reveal that the Totten Glacier of East Antarctica, which fronts a large ice mass grounded below
sea level, is now losing mass [90].
Reconstruction of past decades
sea level using thermosteric
sea level, tide gauge, satellite
altimetry and ocean reanalysis
data.
In a second step, we apply the method to reconstructing 2 - D
sea level data over 1950 — 2003, combining sparse tide gauge records available since 1950, with EOF spatial patterns from different sources: (1) thermosteric
sea level grids over 1955 — 2003, (2)
sea level grids from Topex / Poseidon satellite
altimetry over 1993 — 2003, and (3) dynamic height grids from the SODA reanalysis over 1958 — 2001.
This decade - long satellite
altimetry data set shows that since 1993,
sea level has been rising at a rate of around 3 mm yr — 1, significantly higher than the average during the previous half century.
A group of people analyzing
sea level data points from satellite
altimetry, where the errors inherent in the methodology are greater than the absolute trend itself and all sorts of adjustments must be made to get anything out of the raw
data, are in much worse shape than the guy making the mark in stone.
Likewise, Cazenave 2014 had published according to
altimetry data,
sea level had decelerated from 3.5 mm / yr in the 1990s to 2.5 mm / yr during 2003 - 2011, and that deceleration could be explained by increased terrestrial water storage, and the pause in ocean warming reported by Argo
data.
Climate change,
sea level rise, Greenland Ice Sheet, Antarctic ice loss, glaciers, using satellite
data and laser
altimetry to measure the Earth
The long - term tide gauges in the Mediterranean show
sea -
level trends for the 20th century in the range of 1.1 — 1.3 mm / yr whilst more recent satellite
altimetry data reveals much larger increases in
sea -
level throughout the basin towards the latter part of the century.
Here we present an analysis based on
sea -
level data from the
altimetry record of the past ~ 20 years that separates interannual natural variability in
sea level from the longer - term change probably related to anthropogenic global warming.
It is regrettable that the Colorado folks are unaccountably late with the latest tranche of JASON
sea -
level data... for the next decade the satellite
sea -
level altimetry data, the ice - mass gravimetry
data, and the ARGO ocean - temperature, all will (quite rightly) be a key focus of scientific attention.
«Here we present an analysis based on
sea -
level data from the
altimetry record of the past ~ 20 years that separates interannual natural variability in
sea level from the longer - term change probably related to anthropogenic global warming... Our results confirm the need for quantifying and further removing from the climate records the short - term natural climate variability if one wants to extract the global warming signal.»
Analyses of tide gauge and
altimetry data by Vinogradov and Ponte (2011), which indicated the presence of considerably small spatial scale variability in annual mean
sea level over many coastal regions, are an important factor for understanding the uncertainties in regional
sea -
level simulations and projections at sub-decadal time scales in coarse - resolution climate models that are also discussed in Chapter 13.
The 1995/96 rise also appears in satellite
altimetry - based
Sea Level Anomaly
data for the Tropical Pacific.
Accounting for the TOPEX - A instrumental correction for the first 6 years of the
altimetry data set, these studies provided a revised global mean
sea level time series that slightly reduces the average GMSL rise over the
altimetry era (from 3.3 mm / yr to 3.0 mm / yr) but shows clear acceleration over 1993 - present.
Is there any
altimetry data to show how mean
sea level varies along the peruviean coast during these events?
Different approaches have been used to compute the mean rate of 20th century global mean
sea level (GMSL) rise from the available tide gauge
data: computing average rates from only very long, nearly continuous records; using more numerous but shorter records and filters to separate nonlinear trends from decadal - scale quasi-periodic variability; neural network methods; computing regional
sea level for specific basins then averaging; or projecting tide gauge records onto empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) computed from modern
altimetry or EOFs from ocean models.
The
data which support the 60 - year cycle are summarized, in particular
sea surface temperatures and
sea level rise measured either by tide gauge or by satellite
altimetry.
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.
The monthly global surface temperature
data are from NCDC, NOAA: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/anomalies/index.html; the global mean
sea level data are from AVISO satellite
altimetry data: http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/en/news/ocean-indicators/mean-
sea-
level/; and the CO2 at Mauna Loa
data are from NOAA http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/