William and Mary’s Batten School and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have released its yearly “report cards” for sea-level rise, and the city of Norfolk is near the top of the ...

These hidden waterfalls are a key part of the global ocean's overturning circulation ... 2 and Sentinel-3A can measure changes in sea surface height to within a few centimeters.

The El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most influential interannual climate phenomena in the global ocean-atmospheric ... marked by warming sea surface temperatures in the ...

As NASA reveals sea levels rose at a fasster rate than expected in 2024, chilling maps reveal which states in the US could be ...

A recent study reveals that slow ocean expansion 15-6 million years ago caused sea levels to change and drop by up to 30 ...

Abstract: Sea surface height (SSH) is of great significance in oceanography ... and SSH derived from physical altimetry models). The global sea surface dataset Danmarks Tekniske Universitet 2018(DTU18 ...

As global warming continues to melt Earth's glaciers ... The latest, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, is capable of measuring sea surface height down to a few centimeters for 90 percent of Earth's oceans.

The temperature of the sea ... sea surface (the less dense water is lighter and will tend to rise). These height differences (relating directly to the internal pressure of the ocean waters) represent ...

Its Ka-band Radar Interferometer scans 120-km-wide swaths of sea surface height, delivering two-dimensional measurements with far greater resolution and lower noise than earlier altimeters. The ...

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have mapped ...