Sentences with phrase «make sea level measurements»

Not exact matches

(Parenthetically, tide gauge measurements of sea level are made relative to the adjacent land, and have shown sea level rises encroaching on the shoreline).

Has realclimate ever done (or considered doing) an entry about the immense contribution that satellite measurements have made in the past two - three decades, in helping us to understand various components of the earth system (e.g., vegetation, ozone, ice sheet mass, water vapor content, temperature, sea level height, storms, aerosols, etc.)?

Indeed, the first point made in this Skeptical Science article is «A variety of different measurements find steadily rising sea levels over the past century.».

[Ankh]:» «As for CO2 itself, the old measurements made at sea - level pressure had little to say about the frigid and rarified air in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, where most of the infrared absorption takes place.

I've been doing climate database work for a long time and have learned a few shortcut methods that made it at least possible to get an average sea level out of the measurements.

A combination of 33 - year satellite records, measurements made over the past century, and long - term proxy analysis suggests Arctic sea ice may be at its lowest level for more than 1,000 years.

Global sea level keeps marching up at a rate of over 30 cm per century since 1992 (when global measurements via altimetry on satellites were made possible), and that is perhaps a better indicator that global warming continues unabated.

If it were true then starting from 3.0 mm / yr today and looking back would entail a decline in sea level of 28.2 cm / century back in 1985 when GEOSAT was launched to make such measurements.

Things like sea level rise and ARGO measurements are used to «correct» CERES data so that it all appears to make sense.