Sentences with phrase «sea surface heights above»
Types of dataset: auxiliary products Contents: mean over the 1993 - 2012 period of the sea surface height above geoid.
https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/ Not exact matches
Other tests indicate that the long - lost peak — now dubbed Kaena volcano — grew from the sea floor and broke through the ocean's surface about 3.5 million years ago, eventually reaching a height of about 1000 meters above sea level before it began sinking back into the sea.
The video loop above shows satellite readings of sea surface height, an indirect measure of heating (because of the way warmer water expands).
You see, the data used in determining satellite - based SLR in the above data and graphs, is not really a rise in the sea surface HEIGHT.
The satellite image showed that sea surface heights were about 4 inches (10 cm) above normal in warmer regions (these appear red in the image), while the regions where cooler water prevails are 6 to 7 inches (14 to 18 cm) below normal (these appear purple).
The maps above shows the ten - day average of sea surface height centered on May 2, 1997 (left), and May 3, 2014.
An analogue might be height above sea level of the ground surface.