Sentences with phrase «sea level fluctuations over»

These regional differences, observed by Topex / Poseidon since 1993, mostly reflect sea level fluctuations over several years., estimates of the rise in sea level - now running at 2.5 millimetres a year - have gained in accuracy.

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.

Not exact matches

The IPCC's assessment of the literature, prior to our study, was that global sea - level fluctuations over the last 5 millennia were < ± 25 cm, and that there was no clear evidence of whether specific fluctuations seen in some regional sea level records reflected global changes.

Walker discovered that the sea level pressure fluctuations over the Indian Ocean and tropical Pacific tend to vary with opposite phase.