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
Even when there doesn't happen to be an overpass at surge time, the statistics of sea
level that we got from more than 20 years of repeated altimetric observations in the area can still be combined with
data from nearby
tide gauges to improve the forecasts of the expected surge.»
Raw
data collected from altimeters have been re-processed and collated with wind speed
data from scatterometers and sea
level measurements from
tide gauges, to show the spatial structure of each storm.
This enabled the NOAA
tide gauge at this site to report a maximum storm
tide level of 3.88 feet above NAVD88
datum.
While previous studies had examined the effects of El Niño on sea
levels, namely around Australia, this one was the first to look at the U.S. and combine
tide gauge and satellite
data.
Several previous analyses of
tide gauge records1, 2,3,4,5,6 — employing different methods to accommodate the spatial sparsity and temporal incompleteness of the
data and to constrain the geometry of long - term sea -
level change — have concluded that GMSL rose over the twentieth century at a mean rate of 1.6 to 1.9 millimetres per year.
Oceanographer Benjamin Hamlington set out to see if he could find an El Niño sea
level rise signal around U.S. coasts, by putting together
data from
tide gauges and satellite altimeters, which measure sea surface heights.
Rates of sea -
level rise calculated from
tide gauge data tend to exceed bottom - up estimates derived from summing loss of ice mass, thermal expansion and changes in land storage.
The «zoo» of global sea
level curves calculated from
tide gauge data has grown — tomorrow a new reconstruction of our US colleagues around Carling Hay from Harvard University will appear in Nature (Hay et al. 2015).
«The shock for us was that tidal flooding could become the new normal in the next 15 years; we didn't think it would be so soon,» said Melanie Fitzpatrick, one of three researchers at the nonprofit who analyzed
tide gauge data and sea
level projections, producing soused prognoses for scores of coastal Americans.
Reconstruction of past decades sea
level using thermosteric sea
level,
tide gauge, satellite altimetry and ocean reanalysis
data.
Note that this sampling noise in the
tide gauge data most likely comes from the water sloshing around in the ocean under the influence of winds etc., which looks like sea -
level change if you only have a very limited number of measurement points, although this process can not actually change the true global - mean sea
level.
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.
Personally I think the approach taken by Church and White (2006, 2011) probably comes closest to the true global average sea
level, due to the method they used to combine the
tide gauge data.
Shown is the past history of sea
level since the year 1700 from proxy
data (sediments, purple) and multiple records from
tide gauge measurements.
Tide gauges (unlike satellites) measure sea
level relative to the land, so these
data are «contaminated» by land uplift or subsidence.
Nevertheless such variability induced by winds or currents may give a false impression of global sea
level fluctuations in analyses of
tide gauge data.
> A new comment on the post # 74 «Michael Crichton's State of Confusion» is > waiting for your approval > > Author: Hans Erren -LRB--RRB- > E-mail: erren21 @... > URL: > Whois:... > Comment: > Sea -
level rise > > Although satellite
data (TOPEX / POSEIDON (sic) and JASON) shows a much > steeper trend over recent years (2.8 mm / yr) than the long term mean > estimates from
tide gauges (1.7 to 2.4 mm / yr), each method compared to > itself does not indicate an accelleration.
It uses the satellite
data of sea
level to determine the typical variability patterns of the sea surface and thus to establish the link between the locally measured
tide gauge values and the global sea
level.
Looking at global
data (rather than
tide gauge records just from the U.S.) show that sea
level rise has been increasing since 1880.
Fig. 2 Global sea
level from
tide gauges (red) and satellite altimeter
data (blue, with linear trend line).
Data taken from Permanent Service for Mean Sea
Level (PSMSL), 2012, «
Tide Gauge Data», Extracted from database 18 Jul 2012 from http://www.psmsl.org/
data/obtaining/.
«Adjustments» To Create Spurious Sea
Level Rise Have Now Infected The PSMSL
Tide Gauge Data In a new paper published in Earth Systems and Environment this month, Australian scientists Dr. Albert Parker and Dr. Clifford Ollier uncover evidence that Permanent Service for Mean Sea
Level (PSMSL) overseers appear to have been engaging in the «highly questionable» -LSB-...]
I do hope that the (much - hyped) issue of global sea -
level rise and putative recent acceleration will be examined seriously here as a geophysical problem and not be subjected to summary number - crunching by inept blog lions who naively think that simple detrending of highly different
tide -
gauge records alleviates all issues of establishing a common
datum -
level.
Several techniques are used to observe changes in sea
level, including satellite
data,
tide gauges and geological or archeological proxies.
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.
«In our study we used sea
level data measured by various
tide gauges throughout the twentieth century to see how extreme sea
level during hurricanes has changed with temperature.»
Finally NOAA 2016 updated coastal sea
level rise
tide gauge data shows no acceleration in sea
level rise along the California coastline or anywhere else despite false claims by the UN IPCC that man made emissions have been increasing rates of sea
level rise since the 1970's.
Gavin Schmidt investigated the claim that
tide gauges on islands in the Pacific Ocean show no sea
level rise and found that the
data show a rising sea
level trend at every single station.
Observed sea
level rise since 1970 from
tide gauge data (red) and satellite measurements (blue) compared to model projections for 1990 - 2010 from the IPCC Third Assessment Report (grey band).
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.
SLR calculated from
Tide Gauge data that has not been corrected by a Continuous Operating GPS Reference System station for vertical land movement, preferably one attached to the same structure as the tide gauge, are not fit for purpose of determining any sort of Global Mean Sea Level or its rise (or fa
Tide Gauge data that has not been corrected by a Continuous Operating GPS Reference System station for vertical land movement, preferably one attached to the same structure as the tide gauge, are not fit for purpose of determining any sort of Global Mean Sea Level or its rise (or f
Gauge data that has not been corrected by a Continuous Operating GPS Reference System station for vertical land movement, preferably one attached to the same structure as the
tide gauge, are not fit for purpose of determining any sort of Global Mean Sea Level or its rise (or fa
tide gauge, are not fit for purpose of determining any sort of Global Mean Sea Level or its rise (or f
gauge, are not fit for purpose of determining any sort of Global Mean Sea
Level or its rise (or fall).
Global mean sea
level is measured using
tide gauge records and also, since 1993, satellite
data.
In the early 2000s, it was noticed that sea
level rise was not accelerating when considering
tide gauge data (and it had decelerated relative to the first half of the 20th century).
Observed changes in (a) global average surface temperature; (b) global average sea
level rise from
tide gauge (blue) and satellite (red)
data and (c) Northern Hemisphere snow cover for March - April.
Church and White (2011) examined sea
level data from both
tide gauges (TGs), satellite altimeter
data (Sat - Alt), and the estimated contribution to the sea
level rise from various sources (Figure 4).
Figure 4: The observed sea
level using coastal and island
tide gauges (solid black line with grey shading indicating the estimated uncertainty) and using TOPEX / Poseidon / Jason 1 & 2 satellite altimeter
data (dashed black line).
The sea
level is increasing by about 1.3 mm / year according to the
data of the
tide -
gauges (after correction of the emergence or subsidence of the rock to which the
tide gauge is attached, nowadays precisely known thanks to high precision GPS instrumentation); no acceleration has been observed during the last decades...»
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.
And now — based on sea
level behavior between 1930 and 2010, as derived from United States
tide gauge data, plus extensions of previous global -
gauge analyses — a new empirical study, which does not rely on a relationship between sea
level and temperature, casts doubt upon both sets of projections.
Yes, Koch brotheres fiddled with all the
tide gauge readings and it seems now managed to stop satelite sea
level data from being transmitted.
-------- http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/1/014013 Predictability of twentieth century sea -
level rise from past
data However, in combination, the use of proxy and
tide gauge sea -
level data up to 1900 AD allows a good prediction of twentieth century sea -
level rise, despite this rise being well outside the rates experienced in previous centuries during the calibration period of the model.
Bill Innis: Jevrejeva's most recent
tide gauge data from 2003 to 2009 shows sea
level is actually falling The
data will likely become available soon.
As for the rise in sea
level, scientists asserted in the IPCC report that
tide gauges and satellite
data make it «unequivocal» that the world's mean sea
level is on the upswing.
«We therefore study individual
tide gauge data on sea
levels from the Permanent Service for Mean Sea
Level (PSMSL) during 1807 — 2010 without recourse to
data reconstruction.
This adjustment of
tide gauge data to yield a rising sea
level trend where none exists is not occasional or episodic.
The
data - adjusters take misaligned and incomplete sea
level data from
tide gauges that show no sea
level rise (or even a falling trend).
Moving forward, tracking sea -
level rise will require maintenance and expansion of the monitoring of sea
level (
tide gauges and satellite
data), ocean temperatures at depth, and local coastal motions.
Scientists at a British government - backed agency have formally responded to «completely unwarranted» claims from climate science deniers that they were engaged in a conspiracy to arbitrarily adjust
data from
tide gauges around the world and misrepresent sea
level rise.
Abstract: Mean - sea -
level data from coastal
tide gauges in the north Indian Ocean wereare used to show that low - frequency variability is consistent among the stations in the basin.