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If you look closely at the satellite sea level data for 1993 + (e.g., at U. Colorado), you will visually see a difference between the earlier Topex / Poseidon data (1993 - 2002) and the subsequent Jason 1,2 data (2003 - present).

Update (26th March 2015): Indeed, a recent paper by Jens Morten Hansen et al. has suggested that, after accounting for the post-glacial rebound effects discussed above, the 18.6 year lunar cycle (and multiples of it) can explain most of the non-linear trends in the sea level data for the North Sea and Baltic Sea — see Hansen et al., 2015 (Abstract).

Apparently no one from Bob Carr's office bothered to check sea level data for Kiribati.

Not exact matches

And in many, many cases — such as with ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, or ice shelf traveling speeds — scientists have recorded the data for decades, systematically, consistently, and with precision.

Whereas most studies look to the last 150 years of instrumental data and compare it to projections for the next few centuries, we looked back 20,000 years using recently collected carbon dioxide, global temperature and sea level data spanning the last ice age.

New data on the relationship among carbon dioxide, sea level and temperature over the last 20,000 years was the basis for looking forward 10,000 years.

The analysis, which used land elevation and tidal data, found that 460 acres, or about a sixth of Hallandale Beach, would be below sea level during high tide under a 3 - foot scenario of rise, according to Nancy Gassman, a natural resources administrator for Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division who worked on the assessment.

Mapping historical shoreline change provides useful data for assessing exposure to future erosion hazards, even if the rate of sea level rise changes in the future.

While satellites have provided consistently good data for years, the next frontier in sea level rise measurement is a new type of radar that can capture a more crisp, higher - resolution picture of sea surface heights.

Pettersen is hopeful that, with more data analysis over longer periods of time, researchers will find more answers yet to account for the melting ice sheet and the subsequent sea level rise that has already had an impact on regions across the planet.

«Polar regions have been changing very rapidly, providing data for our projections on sea ice, snow cover, ice sheets and sea level rise,» says David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, the lead author of the cryosphere chapter.

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.

«But it's less likely that other countries are going to make sure that U.S. states and cities have the right data to respond to drought and sea level rise, so I'd prefer that the U.S. continue to be a welcoming place for all scientists.»

Bed topography data are vital for computer models used to project future changes to ice sheets and their contribution to sea level rise.

No single entity is capable of addressing the vast needs for improved climate services in these nations: for everything from projections of future sea - level rise that help planners identify places to build and develop that are out of harm's way, to maps that overlay population, infrastructure, and climate data to help decision makers target resources to areas of greatest vulnerability.

Eelco Rohling of the UK National Oceanography Centre at the University of Southampton and colleagues reconstructed sea level fluctuations over the last 520,000 years and compared this to global climate and carbon dioxide levels data for the same period.

They compared existing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) records of upper - ocean temperatures in coastal waters for each U.S. ocean coastline with records of actual sea level changes from 1955 to 2012, and data from U.S. / European satellite altimeter missions since 1992.

Ice core data from Antarctic from ocean sediments show 8 episodes of very large ice flux — largest 14,600 years ago, meltwater pulse 1a — 1 - 3 meters sea level rise per century for several centuries.

Paleoclimate data for sea level change indicate that sea level changed at rates of the order of a meter per century [81]--[83], even at times when the forcings driving climate change were far weaker than the human - made forcing.

«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.

The SEA must also collect and report school - level data on nine leading indicators and eight achievement indicators for any Tier I or Tier II school that receives a SIG award.

This webinar explored how SEAs can build an information system designed to drive productivity — what data are needed, how to compile the data into useful resources for leaders at every level of education and how these stakeholders can use the data to drive decision making and advance productivity.

As these data sets expand (paleo - sea level / paleo - temperature) there's every chance we can home - in on some really self - consistent interpretations of temp / sea level / greenhouse gas relationships going back several millenia which we be extraordinarily useful as targets for modelling and as predictors of future scenarios.

When I did this analysis on the first half of the data for your 2007 paper it showed that it would have made a huge over forecast of the rate of sea level rise over the second half of the data.

For other indicators — glacial retreat, sea level, arctic ice extent, etc. — the data is equally noisy, and it is difficult having a sensible discussion without the inevitable cherry - picking on both sides of the argument.

The latest data by NSIDC for Arctic sea ice extent shows that 2008 ice coverage has fallen to 2007 levels for the end of May:

I suppose that if all uncertainties are resolved in the direction of lower risk, we just might get away with BAU for the next few decades without a complete disaster (though continued sea level rise, ocean acidification and 2 degrees Celsius actually sound pretty risky to me, and the risk that there are other factors in play seems to be reinforced by paleo data on glacial - interglacial transitions).

For example, Rahmstorf et al. (2012) in their Fig. 6 show the rate curve for the Church & White 2006 and 2011 and the Jevrejeva et al. 2008 sea - level data sets, corrected for land - water storage in order to isolate the climate - driven sea - level riFor example, Rahmstorf et al. (2012) in their Fig. 6 show the rate curve for the Church & White 2006 and 2011 and the Jevrejeva et al. 2008 sea - level data sets, corrected for land - water storage in order to isolate the climate - driven sea - level rifor the Church & White 2006 and 2011 and the Jevrejeva et al. 2008 sea - level data sets, corrected for land - water storage in order to isolate the climate - driven sea - level rifor land - water storage in order to isolate the climate - driven sea - level rise.

If you study the data in detail, and have the «skillz» to do so, it's obvious that for estimating sea level acceleration on century time scales quadratic fits just ain't right.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

For that purpose we use global grids of thermosteric sea level data, available over 1950 — 2003.

For anyone who would like to explore what sea level rise would mean for the US coastline, check out this interactive map I made using the EPA's daFor anyone who would like to explore what sea level rise would mean for the US coastline, check out this interactive map I made using the EPA's dafor the US coastline, check out this interactive map I made using the EPA's data.

Thus, otherwise quite conservative voices have been stressing the «unknown unknown» nature of this problem and suggesting that, based on paleo - data (for instance), it was really hard to rule out sea level rises measured in feet, and not in inches.

> 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.

For those that are interested, I have posted some further discussion of the sea level budget and the possibility of errors caused by the introduction of Argo data on Roger Pielke Sr.'s Climate Science weblog.

If we had better sea level rise data for the whole period, we might see that the heat storage curve into the ocean had a shape that better matched the simple function approximation than the land surface data does, or we might have better information on internal climate modes that confused or delayed the temperature response.

Visit climate.gov to click for the data on Arctic conditions, sea level change, severe storms and more.

For 1994 - 2009, using sea - level data, Willis et al. (2010) reconstructed an increase in the upper AMOC limb at 41 ° N by 2.8 Sv.

In the past I have used the University of Colorado for the sea level data, but I am rather disgusted by the constant tinkering that has been happening.

New website provides one - stop shop for flood maps, data on sea level and temperature changes, and other information to aid in planning for future extreme weather events

The question is, given that datum point (the bronze age river) and being able to estimate from river flows, etc. the likely distance to the sea, what sea level rise would you propose for the Bronze Age in the Eastern UK?

Arctic sea ice shrank to its lowest level in 38 years last month, setting a record low for the month of May and setting up conditions for what could become the smallest Arctic ice extent in history, according to National Snow and Ice Data Center data released TuesData Center data released Tuesdata released Tuesday.

Projections for global sea level rise by 2100 range from 8 inches to 6.6 feet above 1992 levels, though the lowest end of this range is a simple extension of historic sea level rise — and recent data indicate this rate has nearly doubled in recent years.

Some groups have tried to develop models of the rebounding land, so that sea level researchers can apply «Glacial Isostatic Adjustments» (GIA) to their data to correct for the effects.

These climate - related land storage effects could be significant for global sea - levels, though unfortunately there seem to be very few direct experimental measurements of the factors involved, and so the only studies of these effects seem to have been from computer modelling of data from weather data «reanalysis» models (e.g., ERA - 40).

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/.

How, for example, does this incident cast doubt on the findings from satellite data, radiosondes, borehole analysis, glacial melt observations, sea ice melt, sea level rise, proxy reconstructions, permafrost melt and such like, gathered completely independently of the CRU?

Linear trends are appropriate for the time period after 1990 where the data are described well by a linear trend plus interannual noise (that's why we show a linear trend for the satellite sea level in our paper), but they don't capture the longer - term climate evolution very well, e.g. the nearly flat temperatures up to 1980.

Data, collected for the years 2003 through 2010, indicates that melting ice raised sea levels worldwide by an average of 1.48 millimeters (0.06 inches) each year.

Are there any parts of the world that are geologically stable enough to use them for direct sea - level data?