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Arctic
Sea Level Falling
- 15
Jun 06 - Arctic sea level has been falling more than 2mm a year - a
movement that [supposedly] sets the region against the global trend of rising
waters.
A
Dutch-UK team made the discovery after analyzing radar altimetry
data gathered by
Europe
's ERS-2 satellite.
"We
have high confidence in the results; it's now down to the geophysics
community
to explain them," said Dr Remko Scharroo, from consultants
Altimetrics LLC,
who led the study.
The
European Space Agency's (Esa) ERS-2 satellite has been making
observations of
the Earth from its 800km-high polar orbit for over 10 years.
Correcting
the data to take account of ocean tides, wave heights, air pressure,
and atmospheric effects that might bias the signal, Dr Scharroo and colleagues
established seasonal and yearly sea-level trends in the Arctic (from 60 to 82
degrees latitude) for the period 1995 to 2003. The analysis reveals an average
2.17mm fall per annum.
Taking
a global view, ERS-2 still records a sea-level rise. It's interesting,
how each study shows that that study's particular location is the only
location where sea levels are falling.
Analysis
of Russian tide gauges by Andrey Proshutinsky from the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), US, also hinted at a sea-level fall
during the 1990s. He said this seemed to fit with the phases of the
so-called
Arctic Oscillation, a seesaw pattern of change in atmospheric pressure
over
the polar region and mid latitudes.
"This
is something like decadal variability. Sea level goes up and down, up
and down - but in general, it rises," Proshutinsky explained.
See
entire article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5076322.stm
Thanks to
Rick
Fanning for this link.
.
Hmmmm. Sea levels are falling in the Pacific Ocean,
sea levels are falling in the Indian Ocean, sea levels are
falling in the Atlantic Ocean, and sea levels are falling
in the Arctic Ocean.
I somehow get the feeling that we’re not getting the full
story here.
.
Sea levels are also falling in the
Maldives!
See Sea levels are falling!
.
Sea
levels are also falling in Tuvalu
See Falling Sea
Levels
.
Sea levels are also falling
in the Atlantic Ocean
See
Atlantic Sea Level Falling
.
Claim that sea level is rising is total fraud
So says Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, head of the Paleogeophysics and
Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden.
See Rising
Sea Level Claim a Total Fraud
.
.
See also Antarctic Ice Sheet Growing –
Sea Levels Falling
8 Nov 06 - Antarctic
Ice Sheet Growing – Sea Levels Falling
.