Sentences with phrase «with sea surface height»

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.

Not exact matches

In the early 1990s the TOPEX (Topography Experiment for Ocean Circulation) / Poseidon satellite, a joint American - French mission, shot into orbit armed with radar altimeters to measure the height of the sea surface.

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.

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

where Vp is the potential maximum wind speed, Ts is the surface temperature, Tt is the tropopause temperature, hs * is the saturation moist static energy of the sea surface, and h * is the saturation moist static energy of the free troposphere, which is nearly uniform with height if the lapse rate is moist adiabatic.

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).

The second is what is termed as «steric change» — a scientific phrase that both identifies ocean thermal expansion due to warming combined with changes in ocean salinity, which also impacts sea surface height.

Together with overall global temperatures, sea surface heights stayed at about the same levels until the late 1800s.

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).

Trends in near surface winds and geopotential heights over the high - latitude South Pacific are consistent with a role for atmospheric forcing of the sea ice and air temperature anomalies.

Results show increased sea surface heights (SSH) in the west equatorial Pacific over the last two decades associated with increased easterly surface winds.

Another paper, [7] which they also cite, instead derives an equilibrium air — sea surface warming differential from a theoretical model based on an assumed relative humidity height profile, with thermal inertia playing no role.

They also find that the primary contribution to storm surges in the region are sea surface height anomalies from the Pacific, with local wind patterns causing small spatial differences in the sea surface height.

--- Atmospheric mass and composition: approx. 510 trillion m ^ 2 (surface area) * 0.1013 MPa (surface pressure) / 9.81 m / s ^ 2 = 5.266 E18 kg = 5.266 million Gt Hartmann, «Global Physical Climatology», p. 8 gives 5.136 million Gt (the difference could be due to actual average surface pressure being lower than average sea level pressure; counteracting that, gravity decreases with height (not much over most of the mass of the atmosphere) and I think global average g may be less than 9.81 (maybe 9.80?)