Stations illustrated with
positive sea level trends (yellow - to - red) are experiencing both global sea level rise, and lowering or sinking of the local land, causing an apparently exaggerated rate of relative sea level rise.
Comparison of daily means for Suva with those for Lautoka and satellite altimetry suggest there could be land subsidence at the Suva station equating to a slow
positive sea level trend.»
Not exact matches
There is no substantive
trend — whereas both GRACE and Jason are showing
positive trends in mass and
sea level respectively.
But looking at the diagram, despite the seasonal variation would seem to be
positive trend in the mass component for
sea level.
The short - term
trend in total water storage adjusted over this 7 - year time span is
positive and amounts to 80.6 15.7 km3 / yr (net water storage excess)... Expressed in terms of equivalent
sea level, total water volume change over 2002 — 2009 leads to a small negative contribution to
sea level of — 0.22 0.05 mm / yr.
In the map in Figure 8, the gauges are sorted into those with negative
trends (i.e., suggesting falling
sea levels) and
positive trends (i.e., suggesting rising
sea levels).
You are aware the
sea level rise has not altered for decades (rate of change) and whilst it is a
positive trend it remains fairly constant and has in fact slowed in recent years?
In response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and tropospheric sulfate aerosols, the multimodel average exhibits a
positive annular
trend in both hemispheres, with decreasing
sea level pressure (SLP) over the pole and a compensating increase in midlatitudes.
In the European
Seas,
sea level trends are mainly
positive, with most areas showing
trends of between 1 - 4 mm / year.
After 1994 SOI
trended strongly
positive, and W Pacific
sea -
levels reflected that with a strong rebound, which unfortunately pretty - much coincided with the start of satellite altimetry.
The report Gray cites states clearly that relative
sea level trends (1992/3/4 to 2006) at all stations were
positive (2.7 to 8.1 mm / year for the 11 of the 12 stations with long enough records).