Sentences with phrase «sea surface heights taken»
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.
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I don't know how accurate 510 million km2 is for Earth's surface area; taking 4 * pi * 6371 ^ 2 km2 ~ = 510.064 million km2; but I don't know the formula for an ellipsoid (polar radius is slightly smaller than equatorial radius)(for what it's worth, 4 * pi * 6381 ^ 2 km2 ~ = 511.667 million km2, which gives a sense of why most of the mass of the atmosphere can be approximated as having the same horizontal area as at sea level (a 1 % increase in area is reached at a height of about 31.8 km)-RRB-.