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Pacific Sea Levels Rising Very Slowly and Not Accelerating Cover

Pacific Sea Levels Rising Very Slowly and Not Accelerating

Quaestiones Geographicae
Volume 38 (2019): Issue 1 (March 2019)
By: Albert Parker and  Clifford Ollier  
Open Access
|Mar 2019
Figures & tables

Figures & Tables

Fig. 1

a) Monthly maximum, mean and minimum sea level in FUNAFUTI (image reproduced and modified from a report of the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology proposed by Daly (2002), b) Monthly maximum, mean and minimum sea level in FUNAFUTI B (image reproduced and modified after BoM (2019), c) Vertical position of the TUVA GPS antenna, close to the primary benchmark (image reproduced modified after JPL (2018).

Fig. 2

a) Monthly average mean sea levels in Hosojima, Japan after GIAJ (2018), b) Position of a nearby GPS dome after SONEL (2018).

Fig. 3

Relative sea level rate of rise and acceleration of the long-term trend (LTT) tide gauges of the Pacific. On average, the relative rate of rise and acceleration are both negative, −0.02139 mm yr−1 and −0.00007 mm yr−2, respectively.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2019-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2081-6383 | Journal ISSN: 2082-2103
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Language: English
Page range: 179 - 184
Submitted on: Dec 7, 2018
Published on: Mar 29, 2019
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
sea level rise,
tide gauges,
subsidence,
Pacific Ocean
Related subjects:
Geosciences,
Geography

© 2019 Albert Parker, Clifford Ollier, published by Adam Mickiewicz University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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