Sentences with phrase «sea level height»

Nevertheless, the local height profiles give indications of the currents that arise from sea level height differences.

The most likely scenario studied was based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's projections of sea level height by 2100 and corresponding changes in reef structure.

Hatun et al. also used altimeter data (local sea level height measurements from satellite observations) to diagnose the norther oceans gyre circulation.

New research led by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) oceanographer Bo Qiu has determined from observational data the length scale at which using sea level height no longer offers a reliable calculation of circulation.

The maps compare sea level heights of that famous El Niño to the one currently ramping up in the tropical Pacific.

One challenge has been that the state of the hydrological cycle is not as easily summarised by one single index in the same way as the global mean temperature or the global mean sea level height.

Judith: I find it useful to express all data as both changes in sea level height AND average rate of change using the same units.

Further measurements of sea level height, water temperature and salinity should help scientists unravel the mystery of the bulge.

The movement of water in the ocean is determined by many factors including tides; winds; surface waves; internal waves, those that propagate within the layers of the ocean; and differences in temperature, salinity or sea level height.

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.)?