Others have
used tide gauge data to measure GMSL acceleration, but scientists have struggled to pull out other important details from tide - gauge data, such as changes in the last couple of decades due to more active ice sheet melt.
The team also
used tide gauge data to assess potential errors in the altimeter estimate.
When
you use tide gauge data, you need a lot of samples, otherwise you get local coastal effects, and one station is of no use at all.
Not exact matches
Sweet advised the Union of Concerned Scientists team on how to
use NOAA's
tide gauge data.
Reconstruction of past decades sea level
using thermosteric sea level,
tide gauge, satellite altimetry and ocean reanalysis
data.
Personally I think the approach taken by Church and White (2006, 2011) probably comes closest to the true global average sea level, due to the method they
used to combine the
tide gauge data.
If one wants to discuss changes in rate within the past twenty years one should really only
use the satellite
data for that and not the rate curves from the
tide gauges shown here.
It
uses the satellite
data of sea level to determine the typical variability patterns of the sea surface and thus to establish the link between the locally measured
tide gauge values and the global sea level.
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data set is more reliable: the apples - to - apples one that
uses continuous records throughout the measured time period (i.e., proxy evidence,
tide gauges), or the apples - to - oranges
data set that has been spliced and combined and changed to fit biases and models?
We demonstrate that VLM corrections, area weighting, and our
use of a common reference
datum for
tide gauges may explain the lower rates compared with earlier GMSL estimates in approximately equal proportion.
Several techniques are
used to observe changes in sea level, including satellite
data,
tide gauges and geological or archeological proxies.
I've been updating the
tide -
gauge - only record from Church & White 2011
using psmsl
data (about 700
tide gauge records in total though about 200 reporting at any one time) and find trends up to 2012 are very much consistent with satellite
data.
«In our study we
used sea level
data measured by various
tide gauges throughout the twentieth century to see how extreme sea level during hurricanes has changed with temperature.»
Global mean sea level is measured
using tide gauge records and also, since 1993, satellite
data.
Figure 4: The observed sea level
using coastal and island
tide gauges (solid black line with grey shading indicating the estimated uncertainty) and
using TOPEX / Poseidon / Jason 1 & 2 satellite altimeter
data (dashed black line).
The 90 % confidence range for the linear twentieth century rise predicted by the semi-empirical model is 13 — 30 cm, whereas the observed interval (
using two
tide gauge data sets) is 14 — 26 cm.
The CRC's Science Panel & scientists: -
Used the Least Reliable
Tide Gauge Data in NC.
-------- http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/1/014013 Predictability of twentieth century sea - level rise from past
data However, in combination, the
use of proxy and
tide gauge sea - level
data up to 1900 AD allows a good prediction of twentieth century sea - level rise, despite this rise being well outside the rates experienced in previous centuries during the calibration period of the model.
Abstract: Mean - sea - level
data from coastal
tide gauges in the north Indian Ocean wereare
used to show that low - frequency variability is consistent among the stations in the basin.
Different approaches have been
used to compute the mean rate of 20th century global mean sea level (GMSL) rise from the available
tide gauge data: computing average rates from only very long, nearly continuous records;
using more numerous but shorter records and filters to separate nonlinear trends from decadal - scale quasi-periodic variability; neural network methods; computing regional sea level for specific basins then averaging; or projecting
tide gauge records onto empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) computed from modern altimetry or EOFs from ocean models.