altimetry

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Leuliette E.W. and Miller L. (2009) Closing the sea level rise budget with altimetry, Argo, and GRACE

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  • But one of the satellites carried a laser altimeter, which easily spotted the deadly waves sloshing around the Indian Ocean Laser altimetry is an extremely precise technology capable of mapping minor variations in sea-surface height with remarkable precision. —  AnalogSFF,October2005
  • Such a value represents ~80\% of the altimetry-based rate of sea level rise over that period. —  Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News
  • We next estimate the steric sea level (i.e., ocean thermal expansion plus salinity effects) contribution from: (1) the difference between altimetry-based sea level and ocean mass change and (2) Argo data. —  Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News
  • Assessing the globally averaged sea level budget on seasonal to interannual timescales altimetry atmos barotropic climate ctw decadalmode denmark eddies fingerprinting gendyn geodetic gmsl grace ice mdt moc mthd nao newcastle nopdf no_pdf nopdf2 nrth_atlntc obp pacific pacific_bp pgr rossby sealevel ssh sst steric steric_calc sverdrup topography CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We know this both from satellite measurements (mentioned in the links) and laser altimetry. —  RealClimate
 

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  1. from altimeter; = French altimétrie.
 

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