Sentences with phrase «sea level height measurements»

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

Not exact matches

That measurement included only the height above the average level of the sea and did not consider the depth of the wave trough.

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.

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

A detailed body of literature is on hand — alluding to Wagner, Dürer, the measurements of the concentration camps, the geographical height of the White Cube gallery above sea level — to help you construct additional meanings.

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.)?

So, in theory, this measurement could be converted into a measure of the sea surface height, i.e., the mean sea level.

Assuming 9 million square km of the ice sheet have few measurements, that works out to a ratio of 40:1: a 40 cm lowering of average ice sheet height would produce a 1 cm rise in sea level.