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.
See also:
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 |