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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

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).
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).
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.
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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