Sentences with phrase «sea surface height»

Changes in sea surface height can indicate the amount of heat in the ocean because the ocean expands when it is heated and contracts when it is cooled.

Using the satellite observations, compiled by the leading sea level research group's site, one can download sea surface height anomalies from the beginning of the 21st century.

Then how do you explain the gravity / sea surface height data?

Comparison of sea surface heights in the Pacific between December 2015 and December 1997.

The altimeter measures sea surface height by bouncing radar signals off the ocean and timing their echo.

This visualization shows side by side comparisons of Pacific Ocean sea surface height anomalies of what is presently happening in 2015 with the Pacific Ocean signal during the famous 1997 El Niño.

The low sea surface heights above the cold blob are consistent with the Mercator Ocean profile, namely the water in that region is cold from top to bottom.

This is probably best illustrated in the figure below, where the authors apply their method of analysis to the satellite sea surface height (SSH) data (AVISO):

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

There definitely appears to have be a disturbance in Sea Surface Temperature between May 9th and 19th, Furthermore, the disturbance wasn't just SST, it was also Sea Surface Height;

In the case of ORAS4, this includes ocean temperature measurements from bathythermographs and the Argo buoys, and other types of data like sea surface height and surface temperatures.

Qiu, Bo, Shuiming Chen, 2006: Decadal variability in the large - scale sea surface height field of the south pacific ocean: observations and causes.

This satellite image of Pacific Ocean sea surface heights taken by the NASA / European Ocean Surface Topography Mission / Jason -2 oceanography satellite, captured on June 11, 2010, shows that the tropical Pacific has switched from warm (red) to cold (blue) during the last few months, perhaps foreshadowing a transition from El Niño, to La Niña conditions.

The maps above shows the ten - day average of sea surface height centered on May 2, 1997 (left), and May 3, 2014.

The altimeter satellite multi-mission gridded sea surface heights and derived variables are computed with respect to a twenty - year mean reference period (1993 - 2012).

Scientists from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and DOE made satellite observations, which included sea surface height changes alongside data of ocean temperatures accumulated from 1970 to 2004.

«The total measurement accuracy for the TOPEX / Poseidon altimetry based Sea surface height is about 80 mm (95 % error) for a single measurement based on one - second along - track averages (Chelton et al., 2001)»

McGregor, S., Sen Gupta, A. & England, M. H. Constraining wind stress products with sea surface height observations and implications for Pacific Ocean sea - level trend attribution.

Both satellite images reveal «unusually high sea surface heights along the equator in the central and eastern Pacific: the signature of a big and powerful El Niño,» NASA states.

«Both reflect the classic pattern of a fully developed El Niño,» according to NASA, although sea surface heights, which typically indicate warm waters, were higher in 1997.

The authors find that the model they use does well at reproducing the magnitude of storm surges and that the primary contribution to such events in the region are sea surface height anomalies from the Pacific.

«As revealed by monthly snapshots of sea surface height from satellite imagery and other estimates, the Loop Current from late winter through summer 2012 was positioned to the west of the shelf slope in deeper water,» Weisberg explained.

The joint NASA / NOAA / CNES / EUMETSAT Jason - 2 satellite measures sea surface height, which is especially useful in quantifying the heat stored and released by the oceans during El Niño years.

El Niño impacts sea surface height, sea surface temperature and wind vectors.

The latest image of Pacific Ocean sea surface heights from the NASA / European Ocean Surface Topography Mission / Jason -2 oceanography satellite, dated June 11, 2010, shows that the tropical Pacific has switched from warm to cold during the last few months.

Several studies have shown that observations of sea surface height (SSH) are strongly correlated with the thermal structure of the upper ocean (e.g. Goni et al. 1996; Gilson et al. 1998; Mayer et al. 2001; Willis et al. 2004).

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.

Because water expands as it warms, that heat also meant that sea surface heights were record high, measuring about 2.75 inches higher than at the beginning of the satellite altimeter record in 1993.

As part of this research, sea surface height has been measured from space using GPS signals reflected off the sea surface for the first time.

This leads us to think that in the near future we should be able to map currents from space by detecting even smaller variations in sea surface height.»

Many NASA satellites observe environmental factors that are associated with El Niño evolution and its impacts, including sea surface temperature, sea surface height, surface currents, atmospheric winds and ocean color.

The researchers collected data of Karenia brevis concentrations, river outflows, wind conditions, and sea surface heights to study the physical conditions during periods of large Karenia brevis blooms and periods of no bloom.

Sea surface heights are linked to ocean temperatures, with higher heights corresponding to hotter water.

The sea surface height map is consistent with active deep convection in the winters of 2015 and 2016.

Oceanographer Benjamin Hamlington set out to see if he could find an El Niño sea level rise signal around U.S. coasts, by putting together data from tide gauges and satellite altimeters, which measure sea surface heights.

The video loop above shows satellite readings of sea surface height, an indirect measure of heating (because of the way warmer water expands).

Types of dataset: auxiliary products Contents: mean over the 1993 - 2012 period of the sea surface height above geoid.

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